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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier">I’ve always thought {‘avwI’} “guard” is the best currently available word for a police officer in general. (No doubt in a militarized society like Kronos there are numerous specialized security services
of which we know next to nothing.) Okrand certainly uses {‘avwI’} in a general sense, especially here:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">Qo'noSDaq paw cha' DIvI' beq.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">tlhIngan 'avwI' lughom.</span></b><span style="font-family:Pica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Pica">Two Federation crewmen arrive on Kronos.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Pica">They meet a Klingon guard. (PK)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Oddly we only have one example of the verb {‘av} “guard” AFAIK:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">molor chalqach 'avlu'bogh pIrmuS lupawta'<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">they reach the base of Molor's guarded tower (PB)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier">Other examples of {‘avwI’}:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier">mughoS 'avwI' 'ar <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier">How many guards are coming?<b>
</b>CK<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier">'avwI' nejDI' narghta'bogh qama' reH 'avwI' Sambej</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier">When an escaped prisoner looks for a guard, he always finds one. TKW<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier">pawpu' 'avwI' paghDIch</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier">the zeroth guard has arrived KGT<br>
["implying that no guard has arrived even though one (and probably more than one) is expected." (KGT 177)]<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier">'avwI' Hay' yaS</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier">The officer duels the guard. KGT<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier">jav luHpu' 'avwI' <o:p>
</o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier">The guard has caused a prisoner to confess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier">(<i>slang</i>; lit. "The guard has yanked a six") KG</span><span style="font-family:Courier">T<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">And then there are those two jokes in Power Klingon:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">Qo'noSDaq paw cha' DIvI' beq.</span></b><span style="font-family:Pica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">tlhIngan 'avwI' lughom.</span></b><span style="font-family:Pica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">lutlhob «naDevvo' vaS'a'Daq majaHlaH'a'?»</span></b><span style="font-family:Pica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">jang 'avwI' «lIchopbe'chugh ghewmey!»</span></b><span style="font-family:Pica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Pica">Two Federation crewmen arrive on Kronos.<br>
They meet a Klingon guard.<br>
They ask him, "Can we get to the Great Hall from here?"<br>
The guard answers, "If the bugs do not bite you!" (PK)<br>
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<u><span style="font-variant:small-caps"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">'avwI'vaD jatlh qama' «jIghung»</span></b><span style="font-family:Pica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">jang 'avwI' «jIghung je»</span></b><span style="font-family:Pica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">jatlh qama' «jI'oj»</span></b><span style="font-family:Pica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">jang 'avwI' «jI'oj je»</span></b><span style="font-family:Pica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">jatlh qama' «jIDoy'qu'»</span></b><span style="font-family:Pica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-family:Pica">jatlh 'avwI' «jIDoy'be'!»</span></b><span style="font-family:Pica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Pica">A prisoner says to the guard, "I am hungry."<br>
The guard replies, "I am also hungry."<br>
The prisoner says, "I am thirsty."<br>
The guard replies, "I am also thirsty."<br>
The prisoner says, "I am very tired."<br>
The guard says, "I am <span style="font-variant:small-caps">not</span> tired!" (PK)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier">After all, what is it that police do if not guard the citizenry - or guard the rulers from the citizenry? See the Irish *<b><i>garda</i></b><i>*
</i>"guardian, police officer", the Spanish <i>Guardia Civil</i>, <i>etc</i>.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> tlhIngan-Hol [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org]
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>André Müller<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I usually used {Hung yaS} 'security officer' to refer to the police, but maybe {qopwI'} 'arrester' is an idea, too.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">mayqel qunenoS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Numerous times I wondered how to say "police" in klingon. The best<br>
solution I could think of was {qopmeH 'obe'}.<br>
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<<a href="mailto:bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com">bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, October 31, 2016<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Klingon word: qop<br>
>> > Part of speech: verb<br>
>> > Definition: arrest<br>
>><br>
>> AFAIK never used in a sentence.<br>
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> And I see no evidence in Star Trek that Klingons have any kind of permanent<br>
> police force, though suspects are taken into custody and courts are convened<br>
> to try them.<br>
><br>
> So perhaps {qop} is used in the more general sense of the word "arrest,"<br>
> causing motion or some other process to be halted. One might then say<br>
> ?{HachchoHghach qoplu'bogh} for arrested development.<br>
><br>
> ~mIp'av<br>
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