AFAIK there’s only the one example of in the paq’batlh: tuHbe' tlhInganvam jay' Curse this Klingon, who has no shame! (PB) We have several examples of the unusual adverbial {jay’} and it’s use is understood but, as qunnoq was asking how “the other invectives i.e. {va} {Hu'tegh} {ghay'cha'} {baQa'}” are used, I didn’t list it. --Voragh From: nIqolay Q On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu<mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu>> wrote: Oddly, I couldn’t find any examples of invective used in the paq’batlh. Perhaps they’re considered inappropriate in religious/classical literature - even for Klingons! (qunnoq, are there any in the Iliad or Odyssey, or have these texts been expurgated over the centuries?) I'm pretty sure there's at least one {jay'} in there. The English line started as something like "Curse this Klingon...", but I don't remember the exact line nor where in the book it was.