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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghup (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Mar 5 10:21:54 2008
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:19:20 -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, March 5, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: ghup
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: swallow
Never used in canon.
Cultural notes:
KGT 89: Klingons typically gnaw ({choptaH}--literally, "continue biting")
on the nut until it cracks open, and then they spit out (tlhIS) the pieces
of shell (occasionally at a nearby diner, as a gesture of sociability)
before chewing and swallowing the rest. Similarly, they will usually gnaw
on the hard pit of some fruits [...] until it can be chewed and swallowed,
but it is not considered out of place to treat the pit as a shell and spit
out the pieces.
KGT 100: Klingons tend to eat quickly, taking rather large amounts of food
into their mouths and swallowing in big gulps.
Related verbs:
{chop} "bite"; {roS} "lick"; {yIv} "chew"; {Sop} "eat"; {noS} "nibble";
{ghagh} "gargle"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
