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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jav

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jav
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:13:41 +0000
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> Klingon word:   jav
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     prisoner (slang)
 
KGT 153:  The origin of this slang usage of {jav} (literally, "six") is unknown. The usual word for prisoner is {qama'} ... This verb [{luH}] literally means "yank" and is used in such sentences as {jav luHpu' 'avwI'} ("The guard has caused a prisoner to confess"--literally, "The guard has yanked a six"). Standard words expressing the same notions are {DISmoH} ("cause to confess") and {peghHa'moH} ("cause to not keep a secret").

PUN: 
Patrick McGoohan played Number Six in the TV show "The Prisoner."


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons


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