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Re: Klingon WOTD: qoH (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: qoH (noun)
• Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:29:55 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, July 12, 2007.
>
>Category: People
>
>Klingon word:   qoH
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     fool

Used in canon:

   Hagh qoHpu' neH HeghtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'
   Only fools laugh while warriors die. PK

   not qoHpu''e' neH ghIjlu'
   Only fools have no fear. TKW

   meQtaHbogh qachDaq Suv qoH neH
   Only a fool fights in a burning house. TKW

   HIvbe' qoHpu' neH
   Only fools don't attack. TKW

   Hegh neH chav qoH
   A fool's only achievement is death. TKW

   qanchoHpa' qoH, Hegh qoH
   Fools die young. TKW

   qoH vuvbe' SuS
   The wind does not respect a fool.  (TKW; cf. KGT 122)

Trek trivia:

"Obviously you do not know the difference between courage and foolhardiness."
(Kor, TOS "Errand of Mercy")

"{qoH}!" I was not happy. "You did not engage the cloaking device fast enough.
They have detected us." (Gowron in KCD novel, p.101)

"She's not dwelling in the past, like this {qoH}." (SAREK)

Related verbs:

{tlhaQ} "be funny" and {Dogh} "be foolish, be silly".  Cf. also the simile:

   Dogh; tIghla' rur
   foolish as a t'gla  (KGT)



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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