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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghoqwI'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Sep 25 10:27:37 2013
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:27:27 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 25, 2013
>
> Klingon word: ghoqwI'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: spy
nIteb chegh molor ngIq ghoqwI'
One by one Molor's scouts return PB
Related vocabulary:
ghoq spy (v)
Daq eavesdrop (v)
lInDab espionage (n
Duy agent (n)
tlharghDuj scout (ship) (n)
HQ 12.3 p.8: a delegate to the Klingon Empire could well be described as a {Duy quv} "honored emissary", but if it turned out that he or she was a spy, the phrase {Duy HoQ} falsely honored emissary would be appropriate.
Okrand to 'ISqu' (1/02/2012): For double agent, Maltz liked the slang expression {jey'naS ghoqwI'} (literally, "double-headed ax spy"). He said the non-slang term {'o'wen} could also be used for "double agent," but its meaning is a bit broader - it's used to refer to someone (or something) of ambiguous status. As Maltz put it, "You're not quite sure if it's this or that. You think it's one thing, and it may be, but it may be another.
Klingon Special Occupation Order No. 4 requires that 200 local hostages be killed every two hours until a spy/saboteur is given up. (TOS "Errand of Mercy")
AYELBORNE: What are you going to do with him, Commander?
KOR: What is always done with spies and saboteurs. He will be
killed, after he has had first-hand experience of our
mind scanner. (TOS "Errand of Mercy")
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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