tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 28 18:58:28 1998
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RE: KLBC Ha'DIbaHHom
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC Ha'DIbaHHom
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:55:21 -0700
lab Katie:
>
> I thought that HaDIbaH meant dog. As in
> verengam HaDIbaH. Ferengi Dog.
It's <Ha'DIbaH> and <verengan>.
Literally <Ha'DIbaH> means "meat" or "animal", but it also has a slang
meaning "dog, cur, inferior person", and this definition obviously
refers to the slang meaning of "dog" or "cur" in English: calling a
person a "cur" in English is the same thing as calling a person a
<Ha'DIbaH> in Klingon. Neither is very nice.
In any case, there is no association between real Earth dogs and the
Klingon word <Ha'DIbaH>, except that dogs are animals.
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian