tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Dec 27 03:03:55 2007
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Klingon WOTD: jejHa' (verb)
This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, December 27, 2007.
Category: Stative Verbs
Klingon word: jejHa'
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be dull, be blunt (of blades)
Source: KGT (217 KE, 236 EK, 240 EK)
Swedish: vara slö, vara oskarp, vara trubbig (om egg)
Additional Notes:
KGT p. 85. To the Klingon palate, the best food tastes {tlhorgh} ("pungent," though some non-Klingons may prefer to translate the word as "rank" or "gamy"). The opposite of {tlhorgh} is {tlhorghHa'}, conventionally translated as "bland" but literally meaning "unpungent," the implication being that the natural punch has somehow been taken out of the food as a result of how it was prepared. The same ideas are often expressed idiomatically. When talking about the quality of a dish, one may say {jej pach} ("The claw is sharp"; that is, the food is pungent) or {jejHa' pach} ("The claw is dull"; in other words, the food is bland, where {jejHa'} ["dull"] really means something like "de-sharpened").
Antonyms: jej
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