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Re: Klingon WOTD: Qargh (noun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Mar 14 10:25:37 2008
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:22:26 -0500
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, March 14, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: Qargh
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: fissure
Never used in canon.
Related nouns:
{Seq} "fault (seismic)", {DI} "litter, rubble, debris", {pIgh}
"ruins"; cf. also {ngech} "valley", {'och} "tunnel", {DIS} "cave".
I've seen *{QarghHom} used for "micro-fracture", a condition which seems to
afflict spaceships and other technology in the Trek universe.
Related verbs:
{Qom} "experience an earthquake or tremor"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
