tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 07 07:19:27 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: bIQDep
> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, February 07, 2014
>
> Klingon word: bIQDep
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: fish
> Source: KGT
Literally "water being". Does this include all aquatic beings? N.B. the {norgh} is glossed "type of animal, a sharklike sea creature" in KGT. Is a {pIpyuS} a {bIQDep}?
HQ 10.4: [{ghotI'} is] "the most general word for fish" [of which there are several varieties]
The difference between the two words is unknown. Are {ghotI'mey} a subset of {bIQDep}, or vice versa, or neither?
(Pun alert! Recall George Bernard Shaw's famous joke ridiculing the notorious non-phonetic spelling of English. He gave the separate sounds for /gh/, /o/ and /ti/ as a possible spelling of "fish", as those sounds are given by those spellings: i.e. in enouGH, wOmen, naTIon.)
Related vocabulary:
Ha'DIbaH animal (n)
Dep being (nonhumanoid) (n)
"That is a *fish* you are holding!!" (a shocked Worf to Riker, TNG "The Icarus Factor")
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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