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Re: Klingon WOTD: Serrum (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Serrum (noun)
• Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:24:59 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, April 4, 2008.
>
>Klingon word:   Serrum
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     earwax

Never used in canon.

>Additional Notes:
>HolQeD 12:4, p. 8: "Maltz's Reward: Part III."  Ears (at least healthy 
>ones) produce no byproducts other than earwax ({Serrum}), which is said to 
>somehow just {vI'} "accumulate" in the ear.

Remember there are two words for ear:

KGT 88:  {qogh} ("ear" - the external part, if there is one; the actual 
organ of hearing, the {teS}, is usually considered too small to bother with)

Pun:

Cerumen is the medical term for earwax.




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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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