tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 04 20:02:31 2003
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Re: Klingon WOTD: woj (v)
ja' Voragh:
>Also note the apparently unrelated noun {woj} "radiation".
The way they are related is a bit of folklore which should be added to the
Wiki. Any volunteers?
>ghunchu'wI' once commented, "I always thought {woj} did make a reasonable
>verb, though -- 'irradiate' or something similar seems okay for
>'sterilize'." (I suppose high doses of radiation can sterilize a person,
>if it doesn't kill him first!)
This use of "sterilize" was meant to evoke killing pathogens, not rendering
someone incapable of producing offspring! It's intended as a cleaning or
food preservation term.
-- ghunchu'wI'