This is one of the first Klingon words I memorized. I thought that bird dung that drops on me is still dung when it’s above me, but if I toss a coin and it hits the pavement and makes the noise “bing”, it doesn’t matter how high I toss the coin. It doesn’t “bing” until it’s below me.

These words are one of those linguistic jokes in Klingon. In English, front vowels tend to represent up while back vowels tend to represent down. They're even called high pitch and low pitch. In Klingon, this is reversed.

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