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• Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 07:40:38 EDT

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   This homophony explains why the Klingon slang expression {qogh
   tuQmoHHa'}, literally "take off one's belt" is used to mean
   "to not hear", for example, {qogh vItuQmoHHa'pu'} "I've taken
   off my belt; your secret is safe with me."  [HQ v2n4p17]

I suggest that the verb in {qogh tuQmoHHa'} meaning "to take off one's belt" 
is also idiomatic and different from the standard {tuQHa'moH} "undress" of TKD.

Not only is the suffix {-Ha'} out of order, but the meaning it has in the 
phrase is idiomatic.  If we assume that the meaning of the regularly formed 
{tuQHa'moH} is also regular, i.e., "undress (someone)", then a literal paraphrase 
of the idiom using a normal verb might be {qogh tuQbe'meH tuQbe''eghmoH}.

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