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Re: Klingon WOTD: QaQ (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: QaQ (v)
• Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:21:26 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, June 2, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   QaQ
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     good, be good

As used in canon:

nuqDaq 'oH Qe' QaQ'e'
Where is a good restaurant? TKD

bortaS bIr jablu'DI' reH QaQqu' nay'
Revenge is a dish best served cold. TKD

not Soj QaQ Qaw' tlhInganpu'
Klingons never destroy good food. CK

Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam
It is a good day to die. TKW

Heghlu'DI' mobbe'lu'chugh QaQqu' Hegh wanI'
Death is an experience best shared. TKW

HoD QaQbe' ghaH; reH to'waQ yIv
He/she is not a good captain; he/she always "chews ligament". KGT

jIQaQ
I am good. STC:KLS

qeS QaQ.
[untranslated] (st.klingon)

>Additional Notes:  Opposite of {qab}.

Don't confuse {QaQ} with the exclamation {maj} "Good!".

Cf. also {qaq} "be better", {Dub} "improve" (i.e. "make [something] 
better") and {pov} "be excellent".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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