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Re: Klingon WOTD: nguq (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: nguq (verb)
• Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:22:54 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, January 2, 2008.
>
>Klingon word:   nguq
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     be arrogant, haughty, conceited
>Source: HQ (12:3 p9)
>
>Additional Notes:
>HolQeD 12:3, p. 8.  "Maltz's Reward: Part II."  The notion of "too big for 
>one's britches" ("be too haughty or arrogant for one's status") as well as 
>that of "commit hubris" ("be presumptuous or arrogant") might best be 
>rendered in Klingon not by {HoQ} but by {nguq} "be arrogant, haughty, 
>conceited" an undesireable trait.

{HoQ} "be honored falsely, be falsely honorable"

[HQ continued...]

HolQeD 12:3, p. 9:  To be {Hem} "proud", however, is quite admirable and 
does not carry any connotations of arrogance as the Federation Standard 
words {proud} and "pride" sometimes do. The noun {'eDjen} refers to a 
person who is arrogant or haughty.

Never used in canon.

Related verbs:

{jeQ} "be self-confident"




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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