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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: vIq
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Feb 26 10:20:37 2013
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:20:20 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 26, 2013
>
> Klingon word: vIq
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: battle, combat (abstract)
Chance 'echletHommey Community Chest 'echletHommey je qa' quv 'echletHommey vIq 'echletHommey je
COMBAT and HONOR cards replace Chance and Community Chest cards. MKE
wa'maH jav vIq 'echletHommey
16 COMBAT cards. MKE
KGT 47: In parallel fashion, any specific battle is {may'}, but the concept of battle is {vIq}, often translated as "combat" ... In short, the nouns {veS} (war, warfare) and {vIq} (combat) and the verb {Qoj} (wage war) all are used to refer to the ideas of warfare, combat, and making war, while the nouns {noH} (war) and {may'} (battle) and the verbs {ghob} (make war, do battle) and {Suv} (fight) are used when referring to specific, concrete instances of war, battle, and fighting. Thus it is possible to say ... {may' ghob} or {may' Suv}, meaning "He/she fights a battle", but it is not normally acceptable to say ... *{vIq Suv} ("He/she fights a combat").
PUN:
Actor Vic Morrow starred in the 1960s TV series "Combat".
Similar words:
yol conflict (n)
Seng trouble (n)
Suv fight (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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