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Re: Klingon WOTD: joy' (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: joy' (verb)
• Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:56:59 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, March 1, 2008.
>
>Klingon word:   joy'
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     torture

Never used in canon.

Discussed by Okrand:

KGT 153:  [{luH}] literally means "yank" and is used in such sentences as 
{jav luHpu' 'avwI'} ("The guard has caused a prisoner to 
confess"--literally, "The guard has yanked a six"). Standard words 
expressing the same notions are {DISmoH} ("cause to confess") and 
{peghHa'moH" ("cause to not keep a secret").

Related verbs:

   {yu'} "question, interrogate";

Related nouns:

   {be'joy'} "ritualized torture-by-females" (SAREK)

Pun note:

   "joy"?




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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