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Re: Klingon WOTD: taH (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: taH (v)
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:51:17 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, December 13, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   taH
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     be at a negative angle

Never used in canon, this is one of the more puzzling words in the 
glossary.  When someone on st.klingon wondered whether anyone has ever just 
asked Okrand about it, Sustel answered, "Yes. No answer yet." (st.k 6/97).

Okrand did mention {taH} in his article on piloting vocabulary in HolQeD 11.2:

   The attitude of a plane is its orientation relative to something,
   such as the {ghangwI'} "horizon" ... The attitude of an aircraft
   is often talked about in terms of angles. The word for "angle" is
   {tajvaj}. Klingon {taH} means "be at a negative angle".

I'm told that someone (not Okrand) at qep'a' loSDIch suggested it means "be 
tilted."

Related (?) position verbs include {yoy} "be upside down", {Don} "be 
parallel, go parallel to" and {lol} "be in an attitude".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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