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Re: Klingon WOTD: joy' (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Mar 3 10:59:43 2008
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:56:59 -0600
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, March 1, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: joy'
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: torture
Never used in canon.
Discussed by Okrand:
KGT 153: [{luH}] literally means "yank" and is used in such sentences as
{jav luHpu' 'avwI'} ("The guard has caused a prisoner to
confess"--literally, "The guard has yanked a six"). Standard words
expressing the same notions are {DISmoH} ("cause to confess") and
{peghHa'moH" ("cause to not keep a secret").
Related verbs:
{yu'} "question, interrogate";
Related nouns:
{be'joy'} "ritualized torture-by-females" (SAREK)
Pun note:
"joy"?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
