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Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhIj (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, June 5, 2007.
>
>Klingon word:   tlhIj
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     apologize

Never used in Canon.

{tlhIj} is listed in the TKD Addendum, which covers vocabulary from 
ST5.  Klaa apologizes to Kirk near the end of the movie, but in 
English.  (I've added a couple of bits of untranslated KLingon I heard):

   [As Kirk is transported aboard the Bird of Prey, two Klingon guards 
escort him
    to the bridge. There Kirk is confronted by Korrd, now dressed to 
command the
    Bird of Prey. Klaa stands off to one side, humbled.]

   KORRD: {yIjonHa'!}
           Release him.

   KORRD: Kirk, my junior officer has something he would like to say to you.

   KORRD: {yIjatlh!}
          [Tell him!]                                      (untranslated)

   KLAA: I... apologize.

   [Kirk looks in wonder.]

   KORRD: {maj.  'ej...}
          (Good.  [And...?])                                (untranslated)

   KLAA: The attack upon your vessel was not authorized by my government.


Presumably the un-filmed Klingon line is simply: {jItlhIj}.

Related verbs:

{QoS} "be sorry"



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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