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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghu' (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ghu' (n)
• Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:07:20 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, September 4, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   ghu'
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     situation

As used in canon:

   DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'
   Set fire on the side when there is danger. PK
   (i.e. "when the situation is dangerous")

   ghu'maj Dayajbe'law', Sa'.
   [You don't seem to grasp our situation, General. (novel)] ST6

Cf. the nouns {wanI'} "phenomenon, event, occurrence" and {poH} "time 
[period]".  Cf. also the slang verb {Haq} "intervene in (a situation)".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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