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Re: Klingon WOTD: luj (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 


> > Klingon word:   luj
> > Part of Speech: verb
> > Definition:     fail, lose (not win)
> >
> > Additional Notes:
> > From Okrand's Notes, HolQeD Vol 2. No. 4.  Also in KGT.

Tyler wrote:
>As used in canon:
>
>   {lujpu' jIH'e'}
>   I, and only I, have failed. (TKD)
>
>   {lujpu' jIH}
>   I have failed. (TKD)

Some more examples:

   bIlujlaHbe'chugh bIQaplaHbe'
   If you cannot fail, you cannot succeed.
   (lit. "If you cannot lose, you cannot win.") TKW

   wo' choqmeH may' DoHlu'chugh lujbe'lu'
   "...ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat." TKW

Discussion:

   The slang expression is used in such constructions as {bIvonlu'pu'}
   ("You have failed completely"; literally, "You have been trapped").
   In standard Klingon, the same idea may be expressed by saying {lujbej}
   ("certainly fail"), {lujchu'} ("fail perfectly"), or {lujqu'} ("really
   fail"), all based on {luj} ("fail"). Note that {luj} is also used to
   mean "lose" (as in "lose at a game"). To say "I lose" is {jIluj}; to
   say "I lose in a big way" is {jIlujqu'} or {jIlujchu'}. (KGT 165-66)

> > Opposite of {Qap}.

   To a Klingon, to win is to function perfectly. The opposite notion,
   "lose", is commonly {luj}, also meaning "fail". (HQ 2.4:18)



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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