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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghal (v)



>From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ghal (v)
>Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:25:58 -0500
>
>: Klingon word:   ghal
>: Part of Speech: verb
>: Definition:     be jealous (of), envy
>:
>: Additional Notes:
>: HolQeD 8:3.  There is also an idiomatic phrase which conveys the idea of
>: jealousy: {SuD veqlargh mInDu'}.

Hmmm...I think I found a pun. If I recall, emotions used to be associated 
with various bodily fluids, and jealousy was associated with bile (which is 
why green is considered the color of envy.) Bile is also called "gall," or, 
in Klingon sounds, "ghal."
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