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Re: Klingon WOTD: nep (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: nep (v)
• Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:19:25 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, August 28, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   nep
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     lie, fib

As used in canon:

   bInep
   You lie. You're lying. TKD

The derived noun is {nepwI'} "liar":

   nepwI' Daba'
   He is obviously lying. TKD

which was used, correctly, in TNG "A Matter of Honor":

   yIHarQo'!  nepwI' ghaH.
   Do not believe him! He lies. [i.e. "He's a liar."]

(Simple, sure, but it's too bad that all the writers' Klingon lines weren't 
this good!)

Cf. also {lay'Ha'} "break one's word", {lach} "exaggerate" and {mIy} 
"brag".  An antonym is {vIt} "tell the truth".




-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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