<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 22:19, nIqolay Q <<a href="mailto:niqolay0@gmail.com">niqolay0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If we take {qIvon} to mean "knee" as the writers intended, for instance as a variant from Kor's native dialect, Dax's use of it would also emphasize that she's Curzon, since someone who didn't know Kor that well might just say {qIv}. If we also take {qIvon} as a standard dialect word for a possibly-vaguely-naughty body part, as suggested by the way Maltz talks about it, it would also emphasize the friendship between Curzon and Kor, because making innuendos and double-entendres seems like the sort of thing Kor and his warrior buddies would get up to.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It's also possible that {qIvon} is sometimes used as a sort of bawdy slang replacement for {qIv}, because of the phonetic similarity.</div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>Kirk: I was lucky that thing had knees.<div>Martia: That's not his knee. Not everybody keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>