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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu May 30 11:07:03 2013
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:06:40 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, May 30, 2013
>
> Klingon word: mut
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: species
AFAIK never used in a Klingon sentence.
KGT 132: Another set of similes link humanoid species of various kinds to certain qualities ...
Trek trivia:
"We are similar as a species." (Kor, TOS "Errand of Mercy")
In 2254 the Talosians kept a menagerie of thousands of specimens from various species collected from all over that part of the galaxy. (TOS "The Cage/The Menagerie, Pt. II)
PUN:
a "mutt"!
Note the homophonous quality {mut} "be selfish". Is this a Darwinian pun having to do with the survival of the fittest: i.e. the most selfish species survives? (I know it's a stretch, but you never know with Okrand.)
(Somewhat) related nouns:
Segh race (type, sort, class)
yagh organism
chovnatlh specimen
ghantoH model, example, pattern
buv classification
poj analysis
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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