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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: pav
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Tue May 29 10:01:23 2012
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>, "tlhingan-hol@kli.org"
<tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 14:00:20 +0000
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Relevant idiom: qul DIr yISop! ("Eat the fire skin!")
"This phrase means "Hurry up! Move quickly!" It
comes from the necessity of eating {qul DIr} ("fire skin"),
a dish consisting of flaming pieces of cut-up animal skin,
quickly, before the fire goes out." [KGT]
Another one: vIHtaH gho. ("The hoop is moving.")
"This expression means that an activity of finite
(though perhaps indeterminate) length has started. It is
used to encourage somebody to make a decision or to
perform a process more quickly." [KGT]
Other relevant word: chach = "emergency"
Seen in chach Duj = "emergency ship" = "ambulance" (EuroTalk), and chach Duj yIrI'! ("Get an ambulance!")
Can also mean something like "auxiliary" or "backup": tlham chach chu'qa'! = "Restoring auxiliary gravity..." (clipped Klingon from STVI)
Confirmation: http://klingonska.org/canon/search/?file=1992-09-holqed-01-3.txt&get=source
Some have treated it as a verb (tlham chach = "the auxiliary gravity"), others as a noun (tlham chach = "the gravity's backup", possibly short for something like tlham pat chach = "the gravity system's backup" or even tlham chach pat ("the backup system of gravity")).
Discussion: http://stodi.lojban.org/~clsn/webarchives/2012/January/msg00152.html
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From: Steven Boozer [sboozer@uchicago.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 15:28
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: pav
> Klingon word: pav
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be urgent
Possibly used once in canon:
Qugh la'vaD QIn pav.
[Urgent message for Commander Kruge.] (ST3 DVD case)
Related words:
potlh be important (v)
potlh De' priority message
tugh soon (adv)
nom fast, quickly (adv)
qen recently, a short time ago (adv)
SIbI' immediately (adv)
pay' suddenly (adv)
Anyone know if Okrand vetted the Klingon for this re-issue of the DVD?
FYI, the {tlhIngan Hol} on the back of the ST3 DVD case:
Qugh la'vaD QIn pav.
[Urgent message for Commander Kruge.]
qa'vam jan SeH DIvI'.
[The Federation controls the Genesis Device.]
qa'vam yuQ Quv DaghojmeH Duyma'vaD yIjatlh.
[To learn the Genesis Planet's coordinates, speak to our agent.]
qa'vam jan yISuq.
[Acquire the Genesis Device!]
potlhbe' to'.
[Tactics aren't important.]
(i.e. Do it anyway you can; we don't care how!)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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