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Re: Klingon WOTD: HomwI' (noun)

QeS lagh ([email protected])

• From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: HomwI' (noun)
• Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:44:07 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Voragh, ja':
>jaghwI'Daq jIHom
>I use (my) second toe at my enemy
>(idiom: I claim my enemy is unworthy or weak)
>This gesture is a reference to the slang term {Hom} (KGT 152):

Okrand elaborates:

"The gesture itself is most likely to come up during ritualized martial arts 
combat (which, incidentally, is often a part of Klingon ballet)." (HolQeD 
10:2)

A parallel example is found with {qan} "use the little finger":

"In addition to {qan} "use the little finger, use the pinkie," there is 
another verb {qan} meaning "be old (not young)." No doubt because of this 
resemblance, when one points at someone using the little finger, or when one 
remarks on this pointing, the pointer is making a comment on the age of the 
person being pointed to." (HolQeD 10:2)

Savan,

QeS la'
taghwI' pabpo' / Beginners' Grammarian


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(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
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