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<div>Yesterday, when we were discussing my 'hippo' and 'rhino' requests at the chabal tetlh, Andrew Miller taught me the Klingon word pu', which means not only 'phaser' but also 'horn'. He explained that pu' debuted in Lieven L. Litaer's tlhingan Hol translation of The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. A little Internet searching and I found this page:</div>
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<div>http://klingon.wiki/En/TheLittlePrince</div>
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<div>First of all, I would like to compliment Lieven for this impressive undertaking -- and for his excellent taste in literature! The Little Prince (ta'puq mach) contains some classic philosophical musings, like the drawing of the full snake that everyone thinks is a hat.</div>
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<div>Now, for the new words that came in that book. Twenty-four new words were coined by Marc Okrand to help Lieven translate his work, but most of them don't appear at https://www.kli.org/about-klingon/new-klingon-words/date/. Was this an intentional omission? I was under the impression that the ta'puq mach words were canon. I never found these words until Andrew mentioned the translation of Saint-Exupéry's work. (In fact, we had someone at the chabal tetlh page request 'rose' earlier, so apparently other people missed the new words too.)</div>
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<div>DI'raq must be a reference to the physicist Dirac's comment about the sheep in Scotland being shorn "on this side". But qeSHoS is more of a mystery. qeSHos translates to 'strong advice'. Perhaps it is because the fox in the fable gives the crow strong advice to sing. Or maybe it is because Fox News gives its viewers "strong advice". Or is it because Presidente Vicente Fox gave George W. Bush "strong advice" on fingerprinting immigrants in the U.S. when the two met up?</div>
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<div>Also, not to be a grammar yItlhwI' (another new word from the book -- hee!), but shouldn't the sentence "This lead to a great success worldwide" on the Klingon wiki page be "This LED to a great success worldwide"?</div>
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