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Re: Klingon WOTD: per (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: per (n)
• Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:57:05 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, September 24, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   per
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     label

Appears in canon as {malja' per} "trademark"

   Paramount Pictures malja' permey bIH Star Trek pong'e' Deghmey'e' je
   "Star Trek" and related marks are trademarks of Paramount Pictures.
   (SkyBox Copyright)

   malja' permey
   trademarks (ST:Comm)

and {per yuD} "code name"

   A specific plan or stratagem usually has a code name ({per yuD}
   [literally, "dishonest label"]) coined especially for the occasion
   and not necessarily used again. A {per yuD} is sometimes the name
   of an animal, sometimes the name of a Klingon historical figure,
   and it usually ends in {Qu'} ("mission, task"). Code names are the
   equivalent of Federation locutions such as "Operation Cougar" and
   are therefore often translated in that pattern: {targh Qu'}
   (Operation Targ), {lung Qu'} (Operation Dragon) ... {'aqtu' Qu'}
   (Operation Aktuh).  (KGT 48f)

Note the homophonous verb {per} "label, ascertain, specify, pin down".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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