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Re: Klingon WOTD: ngu' (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ngu' (v)
• Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:32:27 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, December 28, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   ngu'
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     identify

As used in canon:

   jar DamaSqu'bogh yIngu'
   What/which is your favorite month?
   ("Identify the month that you very much prefer!") [st.k]

   Daq DaDabbogh yIngu'
   Where do you live? [st.k 7/99]

   Perhaps a translation such as "Identify the place that you live at"
   or "Identify the place that you inhabit" is more revealing."
   [st.k 7/99]

Note how {ngu'} is used where we would use a relative pronoun (e.g. which, 
where, what) in English:

   Similarly, if a Klingon wants to know something, he or she may
   simply demand that the information be given. For example, a common
   way to say "Which weapon do you want?" is not as a question at all
   but instead as a command: {nuH DaneHbogh yIngu'!} (literally,
   "Identify the weapon that you want!").  [KGT 105]

Cf. also the verbs {wIv} "choose" and {per} "label".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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