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Re: Klingon WOTD: pIv (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: pIv (v)
• Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:27:00 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, December 4, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   pIv
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     be healthy

As used in canon:

   tlhIngan yoH pIv verengan yoH rop
   The Klingon is braver than the Ferengi (slang) KGT

In March 1998 Okrand sent Glen Proechel a "get well" letter when he was 
hospitalized for heart and kidney failure where he wrote:  {yIpIv} "Be 
healthy!"  Glen comments: "I don't know that this makes that phrase the 
'official' way to wish someone health in Klingon, but it is consistent with 
the idea that sickness is considered a weakness and a Klingon needs to be 
ordered to stay healthy."

"Unlike most speakers of English, who begin conversations with greetings, 
inquiries about the state of health of the conversants, and remarks about 
the weather, Klingons tend to begin conversations by simply stating the 
main points." (TKD 10)

>Additional Notes:
>Opposite of {rop}.

"Be sick, ill".  {pIvHa'} "be unhealthy" is the more obvious antonym:

   bIpIvHa'law'
   You look terrible (You seem unhealthy). TKD

N.B.  Do not confuse {pIv} the homonymous morpheme *{pIv} which occurs in 
{pIvchem} "warp field", {pIvghor} "warp drive" and {pIvlob} "warp factor".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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