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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghomHa'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Dec 10 16:50:24 2012
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:50:02 +0000
In-Reply-To: <50C6520A.8080905@trimboli.name>
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> >> Klingon word: ghomHa'
> >> Part of speech: verb
> >> Definition: scatter,disperse
Voragh:
>> 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/).
SuStel:
> Knowing the bad pronunciation of actors, I could see the first syllable
> as being a {pe-} or an incorrect {yI-}.
Hmm... /PEE-gom-hah/ {peghomHa'!} That could very well be it as I definitely heard the vowel /ee/ as in "machine) though I wasn't sure about the consonants. I guess I give actors more credit than I should.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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