<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, 17:08 Steven Boozer, <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, June 03, 2016<br>
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> Klingon word: Hoqra'<br>
> Part of speech: noun<br>
> Definition: tricorder<br>
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AFAIK never used in canon.<br>
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Klingon tricorders were seen and used by Kruge's landing party in ST3.<br>
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The name tricorder refers to "a triple sensor-recorder-analyzer function" (ghunchu'wI').<br>
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PUN:<br>
The GTE Expedition Trike is a well-known brand of adult racing tricycle made by Greenspeed USA.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Are these truly "well-known", and did they even exist at the time of TKD's publication? And does Okrand own one?</div><div><br></div><div>{Hoq} "expedition" (= "trek) + {ra'} "order" > "trek-order" > "tricorder" is another possible derivation.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>De'vID </div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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