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Re: Klingon WOTD: rech (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, August 7, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   rech
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     exhale
>
>Additional Notes:
>HolQeD 12:4, p. 8: "Maltz's Reward: Part III."

   Air, for example, comes into and out of the nose or mouth. The
   word for "breath" is {tlhuH}, and that for "breathe" is also
   {tlhuH}. To breathe in, or "inhale", is {pur}; to breathe out,
   or "exhale", is {rech} ... (Maltz was quite amused when he rea-
   lized that the Klingon word {rech} "exhale" sounded like the
   English word "retch" ? that is, "vomit" ? but he couldn't explain
   why he thought it was so funny.)"

Related verbs:

   {ruq} "belch"; {Hob} "yawn}; {tlhov} and {jev} "wheeze"




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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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