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Re: Klingon WOTD: Qang (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Qang (n)
• Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:42:35 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, September 1, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   Qang
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     chancellor

As used in canon:

   Qang yIQan!
   [Protect the Chancellor! (untranslated)] ST6

Discussed by Okrand:

   If someone has an official title, such as a military rank or a
   position in the government, this title follows the name; for example,
   {martaq Sa'} (General Martok), {ghawran Qang} (Chancellor Gowron).
   When addressing such a person, the title is left off only when the
   occasion is decidedly nonofficial."   (KGT 197f)

N.B. The position called chancellor in ST6 was usually called the Leader of 
the High Council {yejquv DevwI'} in TNG, DS9, VOY, etc.  (Anyone know why 
the writers became disenchanted with the word "chancellor"?)



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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