[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: 'eSpaD

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On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 4:00 PM Klingon Word of the Day via tlhIngan-Hol <
tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:

> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, May 07, 2024
>
> Klingon word: 'eSpaD
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: spade (suit)
> Source:
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The word is misspelled. It should be {'eSpeD}.

The source is the Saarbrücken qepHom'a' 2014.

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Maltz said the card games he’d seen on Earth were all new to him and didn’t
match up with any Klingon games he was familiar with.  Nevertheless, he’d
become rather fond of one game, which he calls ’urghwI’ (“one that jabs or
pokes”), a name he made up based on what he thought the Federation Standard
name of the game was (but other Klingons probably would not understand this
word in this sense).

In this game and in others, Maltz noticed that cards were divided up into
four types he called Deghmey (“symbols”).  He said he’d seen different
kinds of Deghmey on Terran cards, but he was most familiar with one set,
and he was able to find Klingon Deghmey equivalents for three of the four
Terran Deghmey in this set:

meyrI’mey (“squares”) corresponds to diamonds. Maltz said he didn’t know
why they were called diamonds since they don’t look like sparkling gems.
They aren’t really squares, either, but they are quadrilaterals, and that
seemed to be good enough to use the Klingon Degh equivalent.

pormey (“leaves”) corresponds to hearts.  Maltz recognized the symbol on
the cards as being the same one he’d seen on valentine cards (a custom he
didn’t understand at all), but they didn’t look like tIqDu’ (“hearts”) to
him – human or Klingon or otherwise.

Sormey (“trees”) corresponds to clubs.  Maltz didn’t know why the symbol
was called a club since it didn’t look to him like a jeqqIj (“bludgeon”) or
a ghanjaq (“mace”).  But it was, nevertheless, pretty close to the Klingon
Sor.

Maltz also had no idea why the remaining symbol was termed a spade.  He
couldn’t figure out what it was, and it didn’t resemble any Klingon Degh.
He just called a spade ’eSpeD.
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