[84211] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: joy' (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Parker Glynn-Adey)
Mon Mar 3 21:58:35 2008
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:56:00 -0500
From: "Parker Glynn-Adey" <parkerglynnadey@gmail.com>
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On 03/03/2008, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
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> >This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, March 1, 2008.
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> >Klingon word: joy'
> >Part of Speech: verb
> >Definition: torture
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> Never used in canon.
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> Discussed by Okrand:
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> 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").
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> Related verbs:
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> {yu'} "question, interrogate";
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> Related nouns:
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> {be'joy'} "ritualized torture-by-females" (SAREK)
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> Pun note:
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> "joy"?
Yeah, I definitely read that as some kind of pun.
I'd been reading up on The Stranford Prison Experiment and Abu Ghraib the
night before, so it was a sort of twisted and sad smirk.
--
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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