tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 05 10:03:52 2003
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Re: Klingon WOTD: woj (v)
>ja' Voragh:
> >Also note the apparently unrelated noun {woj} "radiation".
> >
> >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!)
ghunchu'wI':
>This use of "sterilize" was meant to evoke killing pathogens, not rendering
>someone incapable of producing offspring!
quSDaq bIba'. jIqID neH net Sov!
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons