tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 02 07:48:33 2007
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Re: Klingon WOTD: qID (verb)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, March 2, 2007.
>
>Klingon word: qID
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: joke, make a joke, tell a joke
Never used in canon.
Related verbs:
{Dogh} "be foolish, be silly"; {tlhaQ} "be funny"; {toj} "deceive,
trick". Antonyms: {Sagh} "be serious".
>Homonyms:
> qID (noun) - joke
Never used in canon.
Related nouns:
{lut tlhaQ} "funny story"
lut tlhaQ DaSov'a'?
Do you know any funny stories? PK
Pun: "to KID someone"?
There's a list of known Klingon puns {qIDmey?} at
</wiki/index.php?Puns%20in%20the%20Vocabulary%20of%20tlhIngan%20Hol>www.kli.org/wiki/index.php?Puns%20in%20the%20Vocabulary%20of%20tlhIngan%20Hol
Cultural notes:
Cf. the two jokes heard in "Power Klingon".
"There is a joke, Maltz recalled, about someone trying to lick some food
off of a stirring stick while wearing shoes. Maltz laughed, but didn't
tell the joke." (HQ 10.2:11)
"... that old Groucho Marx joke, you know: 'I just shot an elephant in my
pajamas... and how he got in my pajamas I'll never know.' You can say that
in Klingon, no problem; they'll get the joke. There's not many jokes you
can get to translate into Klingon, but that one would work." (HQ 4.2:5-6)
Worf to Data: "I don't understand their humor either." (TNG "The Naked Now")
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons