tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 14 19:29:39 2007
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Re: chu''a' cha' mu', wej mu' ghap?
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: chu''a' cha' mu', wej mu' ghap?
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:28:14 -0800 (PST)
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--- Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [....]
> >So, I can't prove {jIn} and {Qompu'} are canon, but
> I
> >believe they are. Make of that what you will.
>
> {Qompu'}?? I could only find this in KGT (p.162f.):
>
> The word {Qom} literally means "experience a
> tremor or, using
> an old Terran phrase, "experience an earthquake".
> The word is
> used in its slang sense of "perilous,
> treacherous" when applied
> to a mission or voyage. [...] Thus, {Qompu' Duj}
> (literally,
> "The ship has experienced a tremor") may be used
> to mean "The
> ship is hazardous, has been left in a hazardous
> condition".
>
> {Qompu'} isn't listed in the New Words list. What
> does it mean?
>
>
In my Newest Words list (hence, in the Kliflash
database):
"Qompu' (vi) be made dangerous or hazardous (eg. a
ship)"
http://teresh.tdonnelly.org/klinewest.html
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
-- ter'eS