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Re: Klingon WOTD: Soj (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Soj (noun)
• Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:19:51 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, April 18, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   Soj
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     matter, concern, affair (idiom)
>Additional Notes:
>HolQeD 12:3, p. 8.  "Maltz's Reward: Part II."

 From HolQeD:

   All this talk of pseudohonor and nonhonor logically led to a
   discussion of honor itself, normally expressed by the nouns
   {quv} and {batlh}, both usually defined as simply "honor".
   When asked to distinguish between the two, Maltz said,
   "{tlhIngan Soj 'oH-?not bIyaj}," literally, "It is Klingon
   food-­you will not understand," using {Soj} "food" in its
   idiomatic sense of "matter, concern, affair".

Worf expresses much the same sentiment in DS9 "In Purgatory's Shadow":

   GARAK: "It's the honorable thing to do."
   WORF:  "You use that word, but you have no idea what it means."
   GARAK: "Perhaps not, but you do."




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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