tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 24 08:02:21 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: quS (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, October 21, 2006.
>
>Klingon word: quS
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: chair
Used in canon:
quSDaq ba'lu''a'
Is this seat taken? TKD
Okrand on the expression {quSDaq ba'}:
Probably influenced by the homophony of verb suffix {-ba'}
("obviously") and the verb {ba'} ("sit"), this expression has
come to mean "that's obvious". It is used only in a condes-
cending manner as a response to something that the hearer
deems so self-evident that it need not have been stated in
the first place. For example, upon hearing an obvious remark,
one might say, {quSDaq bIba'} ("You sit in a chair"--that is,
"What you said is quite obvious") or {quSDaq ba'} ("He/she sits
in a chair"--that is, "What he/she said is quite obvious").
(KGT 124)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons