<p dir="ltr">I didn't know these info with regards to the {'Igh} ! I thought it literally meant "to be cursed".<br>
thanks for telling me.</p>
<p dir="ltr">qunnoH jan puqloD<br>
ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 Dec 2016 7:11 pm, "Steven Boozer" <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier">{'Igh}</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier"> be cursed, be jinxed (<i>slang</i>) (v)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier">(KGT 167):</span><span style="font-family:Courier"> This</span><span style="font-family:Courier"> is a slang term with no known origin. It can be applied to just about anything--persons, missions, ships,
and so on--when everything seems to be going wrong. Since Klingons consider self-control a great virtue, declaring oneself to be cursed is comparable to an admission of weakness and utterly uncharacteristic (though not unknown). To say that someone else is
cursed, on the other hand, is to attribute weakness to that person. Accordingly, {<b>bI'Igh}
</b>(“<i>You are cursed, you are jinxed”</i>) is quite insulting. In standard Klingon, the same idea may be expressed by saying {<b>Do'Ha'moHlu'}
</b>(“<i>be made unlucky”</i> or “<i>someone/something causes </i>[<i>someone/something</i>]
<i>to be unlucky”</i>), as in {<b>DaDo'Ha'moHlu'} </b>(“<i>You've been made unlucky”</i>, or “<i>someone/something causes you to be unlucky</i>)”.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier">{jay'} </span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">intensely (adv)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier">(TKD 177): This word not only intensifies whatever is being said, it turns the whole phrase into an invective. Alone among the adverbials, {<b>jay'}</b> always comes at the end of the sentence.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier"> qaStaH nuq jay'</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> What the #$%@ is happening? TKD<br>
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<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> <b>mIch 'elpu' jay'</b> <u></u>
<u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> They've entered the @#$% sector! TKD<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> <b>SoH 'Iv jay'</b> <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> [<i>Who the </i>@#$% <i>
are you</i>? (untranslated)] ST6<br>
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<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> <b>qaStaH nuq jay'</b> <u></u>
<u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> [<i>What the </i>@#$%<i> is happening</i>? (untranslated)] ST6<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> <b>ghaytanHa' jay'<u></u><u></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier"> </span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">Not bloody likely! RT<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> <b><span style="color:#c00000">tuHbe' tlhInganvam jay'</span>
<u></u><u></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier"> </span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">Curse this Klingon, who has no shame! PB<br>
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<p class="m_5172671666339436172MsoPlainText">mayqel qunenoS:<u></u><u></u></p><div class="quoted-text">
<p class="m_5172671666339436172MsoPlainText">> I meant "your mother cooked this god damn food".<u></u><u></u></p>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">Note the second TKD example which
</span><b><span style="font-family:Courier">is an exact parallel to your sentence.<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier">--Voragh<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 09, 2016 10:52 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">{Sojvam vutta' SoSlI' jay'} should suffice to get most of the meaning across. I'm not sure that {'Igh} quite works here. The description in KGT suggests it means something like "doesn't work right, prone to failure, unlucky" and not simply
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