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Re: Klingon WOTD: mongDech (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: mongDech (noun)
• Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:14:54 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, October 3, 2007.
>
>Category: Clothing
>
>Klingon word:   mongDech
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     collar

Never used in canon.

Related body parts:

   {mong} neck; {Hugh} throat

Related nouns:

   {ghIgh} necklace

Okrand on the slang term {ghIgh} "assignment, task, duty":

   As this word literally means "necklace", perhaps the slang usage is
   based on the old practice of identifying one's position within a
   military unit­for example, one's assignment on a ship­by means of a
   symbol hung on a chain worn around the neck. On the other hand, it
   may be based on the idea that assignment to a specific task holds
   one in that position as if by means of a line around the neck.
   (KGT 150f.)

{mong'em}  *mong'em* maneuver ("A parry where you thrust a sword or other 
edged weapon behind your neck in order to block an attack from the rear." 
[Keith R.A. DeCandido's novel _Diplomatic Implausibility_]; cf. the verb 
{way'} "parry, deflect a lunge" [KGT 59, 115].)




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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