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Re: Klingon WOTD: quvHa'ghach (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: quvHa'ghach (noun)
• Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:38:13 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, September 7, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   quvHa'ghach
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     dishonor

Used in canon:

   qaStaHvIS wej puq poHmey vav puqloDpu' puqloDpu'chaj je quvHa'moH vav 
quvHa'ghach
   The dishonor of the father dishonors his sons and their sons for three 
generations. TKW

Maltz on the types of honor:

   Maltz mentioned one noun associated with these verbs, {DavHam},
   which he defined simply as "false honor", but which really covers
   the same semantic ground as both {HoQ} and {Qaq} (but not really
   {mIl}. {DavHam} is different from {quvHa'ghach} "dishonor" (noun)
   in that the latter does not imply seeming to be honorable or the
   appearance of honorability, but rather the lack of or loss of
   honor. (HQ 12.3:9)

{HoQ} "be honored falsely, be falsely honorable"
{Qaq} "behave falsely honorably, behave in a falsely honorable manner"
{mIl} "be formerly honored"



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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