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Re: Klingon WOTD: Serrum (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Serrum (noun)
• Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:55:45 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, December 18, 2005.
>
>Klingon word:   Serrum
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     earwax

Never used in a Klingon sentence.

>Additional Notes:
>HolQeD 12:4, p. 8: "Maltz's Reward: Part III."  Ears (at least healthy 
>ones) produce no byproducts other than earwax ({Serrum}), which is said to 
>somehow just {vI'} "accumulate" in the ear.

Note the pun:  "cerumen" (medical Latin for earwax)

Remember there are two words for "ear":

   {qogh} ("ear" - the external part, if there is one; the actual
   organ of hearing, the {teS}, is usually considered too small
   to bother with)... (KGT 88)

Cp. Spanish *oreja* vs. *oído*.



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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