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Re: Klingon WOTD: mIw (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: mIw (noun)
• Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:31:07 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, October 28, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   mIw
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     procedure, process, step, stage (in a process)

Used in canon:

   'oy'naQ DaQeqDI' mIw wa'DIch Data', 'ach 'oy'naQ Dachu'DI' mIw
    paghDIch Data'
   When you aim the painstik, you accomplish the first step, but
   when you turn the painstik on, you accomplish the zeroth step. KGT

   'oy'naQ Dachu'Ha'DI' mIw HochDIch Data'
   When you turn the painstik off, you accomplish the last step. KGT

Cf. {tagh} "begin a process"

Idiomatic expressions:

   {vIHtaH gho} "The hoop is moving":
   This expression means that an activity of finite (though perhaps
   indeterminate) length has started. It is used to encourage somebody
   to make a decision or to perform a process more quickly. (KGT 111)

Note the noun phrase {porgh mIw} "bodily function" (HQ 12.4)

Many use *{De'wI' mIw} for a "computer program"; cf. verb {ghun} "program 
(a computer)".


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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