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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghar (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ghar (n)
• Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 16:00:35 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, October 8, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   ghar
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     diplomacy

Never used in canon.

Cf. the homophonous verb {ghar} "conduct diplomacy" and the derived noun 
{gharwI'} "diplomat".  Related nouns include {Duy} "agent, emissary" 
{Duy'a'} "ambassador", {'oSwI'} "emissary" and {jojlu'} "consul".

And before anyone asks... the difference between {Duy} and {'oSwI'} - the 
derived noun from {'oS} "represent" - is not fully understood.  As it 
happens, {Duy} is mentioned in passing in the latest HolQeD:

   Thus, a delegate to the Klingon Empire could well be described as a
   {Duy quv} "honored emissary", but if it turned out that he or she was
   a spy, the phrase {Duy HoQ} "falsely honored emissary" would be
   appropriate." (HQ 12.3:8)



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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