[84329] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: qID (noun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Mar 31 11:59:37 2008
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:58:28 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, March 30, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: qID
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: joke
Cf. the two jokes in "Power Klingon".
Related nouns:
{lut tlhaQ} "funny story" (PK)
>Homonyms:
> qID (verb) - joke, make a joke, tell a joke
Related verbs:
{Dogh} "be foolish/silly"; {toj} "deceive, trick"; {tlhaQ} "be funny"
Antonym {Sagh} "be serious"
Pun: "to kid someone"
"There is a joke, Maltz recalled, about someone trying to lick some food
off of a stirring stick while wearing shoes. Maltz laughed, but didn't tell
the joke." (Marc Okrand, HQ 10.2:11)
"... that old Groucho Marx joke, you know: 'I just shot an elephant in my
pajamas... and how he got in my pajamas I'll never know.' You can say that
in Klingon, no problem; they'll get the joke. There's not many jokes you
can get to translate into Klingon, but that one would work." (Marc Okrand,
HQ 4.2:5-6)
There's a list of known puns at
www.kli.org/wiki/index.php?Puns%20in%20the%20Vocabulary%20of%20tlhIngan%20Hol
Trek trivia:
"I don't understand their humor either." (Worf to Data, TNG "The Naked Now")
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
