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RE: bIQ: KLBC

• From: "Stauffer, Tad E (staufte7)" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: bIQ: KLBC
• Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:34:02 -0500

Matthew said:

> I think this is fairly simple to figure out it's
> meaning. 
> 
> bIQ vIghup.
> 
"I swallow water."
No problem here.


> Could this be used to make fun of oneself?
> 
Klingons generally consider water "weak", and according to KGT, "drinking
anything is better than drinking water". So, your phrase definitely is
strange for a Klingon to say, and could be looked at as making fun of
yourself.  It probably would be comparable to boasting "I'm a wimp!" in
English. I'm sure that if you said it in front of Klingons, they'd look at
you strangely.


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