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Re: chu''a' cha' mu', wej mu' ghap?

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected]) [KLI Member]



--- 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





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