On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 03:39:46PM +0000, Steven Boozer wrote:
Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, May 12, 2017
Klingon word: ghogh'ot Part of speech: noun Definition: bill, payment request, something you must pay Source: qepHom 2015 p.18
Voragh:
[MO > Lieven (10/29/2015)]: Here are some more words related to paper: a letter, that is a message written on a sheet of paper and sent to someone is a {nav Qin}. An envelope is called {nav vaH}. In context, {vaH} by itself is enough. The word {vaH} can actually be used for everything you put something inside of it. It's a cover for it. A bill, a payment request, something you must pay, is a {ghogh'ot}.
SapIr:
Okay, I really want this to be a pun on "invoice", given that it starts with {ghogh}, but I'm not sure that works. The only meaning I can find for {'ot} is "the sound of the letter <o>" (which could be a pun on "owe", but then why {ghogh}?).
If you read it backwards - to'ghogh - you get "to voice", which is a little closer to "invoice". Maybe because a bill or payment request is sent to someone?? (It's a stretch, I know.)
Hmm. As Anthony pointed out in another message (and I had already realized, but not commented on), it could also be interpreted as {to'} "tactics" plus {ghogh}. Perhaps we're going to eventually get a word {'ot} meaning "interior".
It's interesting that Okrand associated it with paper and envelopes. I wonder if he had a pile of envelopes with bills to pay on his desk that day? <g>
Aren't bills just one of the staple types of physical mail? I interpret that quote as implying that he was just listing off different things you might get in the mail, rather than things that were related to envelopes per say. I imagine junk mail would probably be {veQ QIn}. - SapIr