tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 01 07:02:01 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chIvo'
> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, November 27, 2014
>
> Klingon word: chIvo'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: total dishonor, absolute lack of honor
> Source: Star Trek Into Darkness, qepHom 2013
potlhmo' batlh, vIqawba'. 'ej chIvo' neH chIw vum'e'.
Because you care about honor. And this man has none. STID
HQ 12.3 p.9: Maltz mentioned one noun associated with these verbs, {DavHam}, which he defined simply as "false honor", but which really covers the same semantic ground as both {HoQ} and {Qaq} (but not really {mIl}). {DavHam} is different from {quvHa'ghach} "dishonor" (noun) in that the latter does not imply seeming to be honorable or the appearance of honorability, but rather the lack of or loss of honor.
SEE ALSO:
batlh honor (n)
quv honor (n.)
quvHa'ghach dishonor (n)
batlhHa' dishonorably (adv)
HoQ be honored falsely, be falsely honorable (v)
Qaq behave falsely honorably, behave in a falsely honorable manner (v)
mIl be formerly honored (v)
qal be corrupt (v)
GARAK: "It's the honorable thing to do."
WORF: "You use that word, but you have no idea what it means."
GARAK: "Perhaps not, but you do." [DS9 "In Purgatory's Shadow"]
HQ 12.3 p.9: All this talk of pseudohonor and nonhonor logically led to a discussion of honor itself, normally expressed by the nouns {quv} and {batlh}, both usually defined as simply "honor". When asked to distinguish between the two, Maltz said, {'tlhIngan Soj 'oH -- not bIyaj}, literally, "It is Klingon food--you will not understand," using {Soj} "food" in its idiomatic sense of matter, concern, affair.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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