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RE: Klingon WOTD: chaQ (verb)

DloraH ([email protected])

• From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: Klingon WOTD: chaQ (verb)
• Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:14:40 -0500
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> >HQ 2 is one of the issues I don't have, so I can't check this, but 
> >shouldn't {-Ha'} precede {-moH}?
> 
> I also lack this issue, so I can't confirm or deny this 
> example; but in most cases, yes.

That would be on page 17 of that HolQeD.


>>>
     3. *ear* -- Actually, there are two words for "ear":

     {qogh} refers to the flap of skin or cartilage or whatever it is that
sticks out
     on either side of the head.

     {teS} refers to the organ of hearing, inside the head.

     {qogh} "ear," of course is homophonous with {qogh}, "belt." When used
     in context, there is seldom confusion; less so when the plural is used
     ({qoghDu'} can only be "ears" while {qoghmey} generally means "belts").
     This homophony explains why the Klingon slang expression {qogh
     tuQmoHHa'}, literally "take off one's belt" is used to mean "to not
hear,"
     for example, {qogh vItuQmoHHa'pu'} "I've taken off my belt; your secret
     is safe with me."
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