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Re: Klingon WOTD: 'o' (noun)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Mar 20 10:43:04 2008

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:40:35 -0500
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, March 20, 2008.
>
>Klingon word:   'o'
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     aft

Used in canon:

   'o' chuyDaH Hongghor je
   aft thrusters and impulse drive (KBoP)


Related nouns:

{'em} "area behind"; antonyms are {'et} "fore" & {tlhop} "area in front of".


(English) usage notes:

"The terms 'fore' and 'aft' are directions, not locations. 'Fore' means the 
direction the ship is pointing, and 'aft' means the opposite 
direction.  Along with 'port' and 'starboard', they define a set of 
directions relative to the ship." (ghunchu'wI')

"The bow is at the fore of the ship, and the stern is at the aft. 'Fore' 
refers to the area toward the bow (the front of the ship), and 'aft' refers 
to the area toward the stern. (They can also refer to something not on the 
ship, but close to it: 'The enemy is fore of the ship', meaning 'The enemy 
is in front of the ship.') 'Bow' and 'stern' refer to the actual bits of 
the ship." (ngabwI')




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons




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