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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: rajma'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Mar 29 10:08:17 2013
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:07:56 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, March 29, 2013
>
> Klingon word: rajma'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: kidney
> Source: qep'a' 2011 [report missing source]
AFAIK no examples used in a sentence.
We don't know how many kidneys Klingons have. Their bodies incorporate multiple redundancies for nearly all vital bodily functions. This characteristic, known as *brak'lul* {bIraqlul}, gives Klingon warriors enormous resiliency in battle, since almost every function in their body is duplicated in case any primary organ or system failed. From various episodes we know that Klingons have two livers (chej), three lungs (tagh), 23 ribs (joQ), a redundant stomach (burgh), an eight-chambered heart (tIq), a backup for their synaptic functions, at least two *QiVons* (qIvon) (whatever that is), etc. (cf. TNG "Ethics", VOY "Macrocosm")
PUN:
*rajma* is a red kidney bean curry.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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