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Re: Klingon WOTD: pIw (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: pIw (n)
• Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:47:12 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, August 20, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   pIw
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     odor
>
>Additional Notes:  TKD Addendum.  Note pun.

Never used in canon, but mentioned in passing in KGT (p.86):

   The verb meaning "smell" - that is, "sense odors" ... is {largh}.
   The word for "emit a smell" is {He'}. This does not necessarily
   imply a bad smell. Odors are not considered "good" or "bad"; they
   are just odors. There may be a subjective evaluation of the source
   of the odor, however. It is a compliment to suggest that someone
   smells like *rokeg* blood pie not because the smell itself is good,
   but rather because the food carries with it positive associations.
   On the other hand, it is most insulting to say that someone smells
   like rotting *forshak*."

Cf. the verb {He'So'} "stink".

For the fastidious (or Vulcans) among us, there's {noSvagh} "deodorant".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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