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Re: Klingon WOTD: bergh (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Feb 7 10:40:04 2008
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:37:21 -0600
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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> >This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, February 7, 2008.
> >
> >Klingon word: bergh
> >Part of Speech: verb
> >Definition: be irritable
>
>Used in canon:
>
> bIbergh
> You are irritable. KLS
>
>Related verbs:
>
>{berghmoH} irritate
>
>KGT 167: [{yIv}] literally means "chew". In its slang sense, it is found
>in such constructions as {choyIv} ("You bother me"--literally, "You chew
>me") or {muyIv romuluS Ha'DIbaH} ("The Romulan dog irks me"; literally,
>"The Romulan animal chews me," where "Romulan animal" is a derogatory way
>to refer to a Romulan). The subject of {yIv} can be only a person or
>creature, not an inanimate object or a situation. Thus, it is inappropriate
>to say something like {muyIv 'Iw HIq bIr} ("cold bloodwine chews me").
>Standard ways to express the same idea are {nuQ} ("annoy, bother") and
>{berghmoH} ("irritate")
>
>Cf. also {bIt} "be nervous, uneasy"
Also {mogh} "be frustrated" and {puQ} "be fed up"
>Antonym: {jot} "be calm"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
