<div dir="ltr"><div>I usually used {Hung yaS} 'security officer' to refer to the police, but maybe {qopwI'} 'arrester' is an idea, too.<br><br></div>- André<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-31 19:31 GMT+01:00 mayqel qunenoS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Numerous times I wondered how to say "police" in klingon. The best<br>
solution I could think of was {qopmeH 'obe'}.<br>
<br>
qunnoH<br>
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Ed Bailey<br>
<<a href="mailto:bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com">bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com</a><wbr>> 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>
><br>
><br>
> 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>
><br>
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