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Re: Klingon WOTD: taH (v)

Teresh000 ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: taH (v)
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:18:44 -0500

In a message dated 12/16/2003 12:51:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:

> 
> 
> 
> >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."
>

My personal feeling is that {taH} refers to something that is undercut, like
an outcropping on a cliff face.  I take this to be the reason for {taH}'s 
other meaning of "continue, endure, survive", i.e., someone on a rock slope
that is {taH} is literally "hanging on". 

-- ter'eS

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