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Re: Klingon WOTD: tu'HomI'raH (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: tu'HomI'raH (n)
• Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:10:45 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, February 15, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   tu'HomI'raH
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     something useless

As used in canon:

   HurDaq tu'HomI'raHvetlh yIlan!
   Get that piece of junk out of here! KCD

Three old Klingons arrive on DS9 to pick up Curzon Dax for a trip of 
vengeance he was bound to with a blood oath. Instead of Curzon they find 
Jadzia, who feels compelled to take Curzon's place even though the Klingons 
release her from the oath. Kor is on her side and eventually she manages to 
impress Koloth with her skills with the bat'leth, but Kang remains adamant. 
At that point Kor asks him, "Why do you dismiss her like some useless 
*t'ooho'mIrah*?" (DS9 "Blood Oath")

I think of {tu'HomI'raH} as the Klingon equivalent to "dunsel", Starfleet 
slang for  a component that serves no useful purpose (heard in TOS "The 
Ultimate Computer").

Antonym: {potlh} "consequential thing, something important"



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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