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Re: Klingon WOTD: Hoq (noun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue May 13 16:58:05 2008
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:55:55 -0500
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: Hoq
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: expedition
Never used in canon.
Related nouns:
{leng} "trip, voyage"; {jey itinerary}; {Qu'} "quest, mission"
Cf. also {Hoqra'} "tricorder". The name "refers to a triple
sensor-recorder-analyzer function" (ghunchu'wI'). Klingon tricorders were
seen and used by Kruge's landing party in ST3. According to WikiPedia:
Vital Technologies Corporation sold a portable device dubbed the
"Official Star-Trek Tricorder Mark 1" (formally, the TR-107
Tricorder Mark 1) in 1996. Its features were an "Electromagnetic
Field (EMF) Meter", "Two-Mode Weather Station", (thermometer
and barometer), "Colorimeter" (no wavelength given), "Light
Meter", and "Stardate Clock and Timer" (a clock and timer).
Spokespersons claimed the device was a "serious scientific
instrument". Vital Technologies sold 10,000 units before going
out of business. The company was permitted to call this device
a "tricorder" because Gene Roddenberry's contract included a
clause allowing any company able to create functioning technology
to use the name. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorder ]
Pun:
{Hoq} is a back-formation from {Hoqra'} "TRICorder": the GTE Expedition
Trike is a well-known brand of adult racing tricycle made by Greenspeed USA
(cf.
<http://www.greenspeed.com.au/gte.html>http://www.greenspeed.com.au/gte.html).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
