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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/14/2021 8:16 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">While the greek/english meaning of "nerve" is a negative one (i.e
"nerve" isn't a desired thing for someone to exhibit in his actions),</pre>
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<p>I don't know about Greek, but in English, this idiomatic sense of
<i>nerve</i> is neutral, not negative. It's the context that
colors it.</p>
<p><i>You've got some nerve showing your face around here again!</i>
(Negative)<br>
<i>He tried to work up the nerve to call her for a date.</i>
(Positive)<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">it seems that in the klingon way of thinking it <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>is<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> something
actually admired. So, I come across a situation described by the
irritating (for me) argument of "what a klingon would actually
do/say/think".</pre>
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<p>This is not a "what would a Klingon actually do/say/think"
argument. This is a "what does this word connote" argument. There
are definite cultural traits of Klingons that we are told about,
some of which are generally admired by Klingons and some of which
are generally disdained by them, and certain words refer to those
traits.<br>
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<p>I'm not exactly sure how everyone has decided that Klingons view
<b>qajunpaQ</b> as necessarily positive. We're told it fairly
clearly about <b>butlh</b> in TKW. But for <b>qajunpaQ</b> it
seems to me to be pretty much an exact correspondence to the
idiomatic sense of <i>nerve,</i> neutral without context. The
only special connotation we're told about <b>qajunpaQ</b> is that
it implies a surprising or reckless kind of courage that the
neutral <b>toDuj</b> does not.<br>
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