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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghomHa'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Mon Dec 10 16:20:47 2012
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:20:10 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <ACF6622D959A8842A81E4471BA56A7E001F0D224@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu>
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On 12/10/2012 4:15 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
>
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, December 09, 2012
>>
>> Klingon word: ghomHa' Part of speech: verb Definition: scatter,
>> disperse Source: TKD
>
> AFAIK never used in a sentence.
>
> Trek trivia:
>
> After welcoming them aboard First Officer Worf dismissed the group of
> "replacement" crewmen for the IKC Rotarran saying, "{/Deen(?)/
> ghomHa'!}" (DS9 "Sons & Daughters"). It wasn't subtitled or
> captioned, but this was how I heard it.
>
> This could be {DIghomHa'} "we dismiss them" though I don't know who
> "we" refers to in the scene. Another option could be *{DaH ghomHa'!}
> "Disperse now!" (clipped, with a mis-remembered or badly pronounced
> {DaH}: *deeh* using the usual English pronunciation for final /h/).
Knowing the bad pronunciation of actors, I could see the first syllable
as being a {pe-} or an incorrect {yI-}.
--
SuStel
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