tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 13 10:52:07 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: 0 (General)
Holtej:
> > Ironic that this occurs on Friday the 13th! Are Klingons superstitious??
[email protected] wrote:
>It's bad luck to be superstitious... >}}:-)# <---veqlargh
Some vocabulary which may answer Holtej's question:
{maQmIgh} "dark omen" (TKD), "sign of evil coming" (HQ 1.3:9) (n.)
{Do'Ha'} "be unfortunate, be unlucky" (v.)
{'Igh} "be cursed, jinxed" (v.)
This is a slang term with no known origin. It can be applied to just
about anything--persons, missions, ships, and so on--when everything
seems to be going wrong. Since Klingons consider self-control a great
virtue, declaring oneself to be cursed is comparable to an admission
of weakness and utterly uncharacteristic (though not unknown). To say
that someone else is cursed, on the other hand, is to attribute
weakness to that person. Accordingly, {bI'Igh} ("You are cursed, you
are jinxed") is quite insulting. (KGT 167)
Perhaps survivals from the past?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons