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Re: Klingon WOTD: nguq (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Jan 2 16:25:37 2008
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:22:54 -0600
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, January 2, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: nguq
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: be arrogant, haughty, conceited
>Source: HQ (12:3 p9)
>
>Additional Notes:
>HolQeD 12:3, p. 8. "Maltz's Reward: Part II." The notion of "too big for
>one's britches" ("be too haughty or arrogant for one's status") as well as
>that of "commit hubris" ("be presumptuous or arrogant") might best be
>rendered in Klingon not by {HoQ} but by {nguq} "be arrogant, haughty,
>conceited" an undesireable trait.
{HoQ} "be honored falsely, be falsely honorable"
[HQ continued...]
HolQeD 12:3, p. 9: To be {Hem} "proud", however, is quite admirable and
does not carry any connotations of arrogance as the Federation Standard
words {proud} and "pride" sometimes do. The noun {'eDjen} refers to a
person who is arrogant or haughty.
Never used in canon.
Related verbs:
{jeQ} "be self-confident"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
