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Re: Klingon WOTD: toQ (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: toQ (n)
• Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:56:38 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, September 20, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   toQ
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     animal - similar to a bird of prey
>
>Additional Notes:
>Babelcon: An animal similar to a bird of prey.

Bill Willmerdinger was at BabelCon 2 (April 1997):

   When I met Okrand at BabelCon in April, we 'purchased' him at the
   slave auction. His 'official' duty was to clarify one word: {toQDuj}
   "bird of prey (type of ship)". According to Marc, a {toQ} is an avian
   predator on the Homeworld whose closest Terran analog would be a "bird
   of prey." When I told him I had theorized that {toQ} might mean "scout"
   (since that's what a BoP is) he said no, it's definitely an animal from
   {Qo'noS} ... a Klingon avian analogous to a Terran bird of prey. {toQ}
   does not literally mean "bird of prey," it's merely one type of creature
   which exhibits characteristics similar to that grouping of Terran birds.

Roger Cheesbro ("DloraH") used {toQ} for "vulture" in his _ghIlghameS: A 
Klingon Translation_.

For more information about Klingon birds, see Okrand's article in HolQeD 10.4.



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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