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Re: Klingon WOTD: 'aj (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: 'aj (n)
• Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:26:58 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, August 9, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   'aj
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     admiral
>
>Additional Notes:
>TKD Addendum.

Never used in canon.

In the table of ranks given on KGT p. 52, an {'aj} "admiral" outranks a 
{Sa'} "general" but AFAIK, we've never seen nor heard of a Klingon admiral, 
although there have been Klingon generals (e.g. Martok (TSN & DS9), Koord 
(ST5) and Chank, Khmarr and Grokh (ST6).  (Have there been any Klingon 
admirals in  ENTERPRISE yet?)

If this is not an accident, it may be that {'aj} is not currently used in 
the "modern" Klingon Defense Forces -- like "commodore" in the modern US Navy.

As Okrand explains in KGT:

   The words used as titles to denote the rank ({patlh}) within the Klingon
   Defense Force have caused a certain amount of confusion, largely because
   the system does not neatly map onto that used by Starfleet.  [KGT 52]

Indeed.



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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