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Re: KLCB: Definitions



At 07:13 PM 5/25/95 -0400, Daniel Boese wrote:
>I just listened to a copy of Power Klingon, and was wondering what the 
>definitions of the "4 virtues" of "accuracy, straight-forwardness, 
>aggressiveness, and strength" were. I came up with :
>
>accuracy                qarghach
        
 How about   jatlhchu'

>aggressiveness          vaQghach

                   pe'vIl jatlh

>strength                HoSghach

                  HoSghaj

These all have to be used in  context to speaking. But the virtues 
apply to all parts of Klingon culture.

As I see it these qualities dont stand alone in Klingon. You  must connect it 
to an action...in this case speach.


>but the best I could come up with for straight-forwardness was
>
>straight-forwardness    yuDHa'ghach
>
>which doesn't quite carry the meaning of "up-front".
>Ideas, anyone?
>

David

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