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<p class="MsoNormal">If it is a gutting blade, one might have expected *<b>ghab’etlh</b>, derived from
<b>ghab</b> <i>meat from midsection of animal:</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(KGT 87): Large animals are usually chopped into pieces, sometimes with attention paid to which piece is which... sometimes not (the
<b>ghab</b>, for example, is just a chunk of the midsection of an animal, including any organs that may have remained attached after the carving).<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(KGT 27): The word <b>ghab</b>, however, which refers to any chunk of the midsection of an animal, has slightly varying meanings depending on region. In most of the empire, including the First City,
<b>ghab</b> is rather inclusive: basically, whatever was chopped off the animal as a single piece, with or without bones or internal organs.
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<p class="MsoNormal">However most people seem to hear <b>ghob</b> (presumably rhyming with English
<i>probe</i>) and<i> </i>not <b>ghab</b> (which would rhymes with <i>gob, blob</i>):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(qa'vaj, 1/08): It's definitely <b>ghob</b> by pronunciation. It sounds like
<i>HHob'ek</i>.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(SuStel, 4/09/2012): I just happened to be replaying it this weekend, and clicked on the weapon in question. The woman speaking the information doesn't have perfect pronunciation, but it sounds very much like
<b>Qob 'etlh</b>.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TREK TRIVIA:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Andorians use an analogous weapon called an <i>ushaan-tor</i> (originally an ice-miner's tool with a convex, or curved-outward, serrated blade) in the
<i>Ushaan</i>, a traditional Andorian duel-to-the-death, which was seen in ENT "United".<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This and the earlier <i>irrealis </i>thread remind me of something Worf said to Iyaaran Ambassador Byleth, who had accused Worf of lying during a poker game in TNG "Liaisons": "If you were not an ambassador I would disembowel you right
now!" <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">--<br>
Voragh<br>
<i>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons</i><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"> Felix Malmenbeck<br>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Indeed. Here is an attempt to transcribe the language note for *ghob'etlh* (via
</span><a href="http://klingonska.org/canon/1996-04-kcd.txt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">http://klingonska.org/canon/1996-04-kcd.txt</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> ):</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
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<pre><span style="color:black">"A gutting device used in balance with a shield when practicing the Klingon<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">warrior fighting style of *qIjatlh (or *qIjat). One of three weapons<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">traditionally displayed on the {nuH bey'}."<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">To see what it looks like, go here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><a href="https://hol.kag.org/page/KLL/WEAPON.TXT.html?o=DevwIW005-EN"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://hol.kag.org/page/KLL/WEAPON.TXT.html?o=DevwIW005-EN</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> ... and click on {nuH bey'}. It's the small weapon at the top of the display.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">//loghaD<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;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> mayqel qunenoS <</span><a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">mihkoun@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> A little bird told me, that {ghob'etlh} is a word spoken on KCD.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Because it has only been spoken (according to the little bird), its exact spelling is unknown. Perhaps it is Qob'etlh, perhaps it is ghab'etlh.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">~ nI'ghma<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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