Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, June 20, 2016
Klingon word: pagh Part of speech: conj Definition: either/or (sentences)
bISoptaH pagh bItlhutlhtaH You are either eating or else you are drinking. TKD taH pagh taHbe' [yIn pagh yInbe' (Okrand's first version ST6) "To be or not to be." ST6 (KGT 194): There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a non-Klingon actor who attempted to play the lead in the original Klingon version of Shakespeare's Hamlet but was shouted off the stage when he began the famous soliloquy by saying, {taQ pagh taQbe'} ("To be weird or not to be weird"), rather than the correct {taH pagh taHbe'} ("To be or not to be"; literally, "[one] continues or [one] does not continue"). pay' HIvDI' lo'wI' pagh mupDI' QIHchu' bIH [They] provide a damaging surprise attack or give a devastating backhand stroke. SP2 HeghDI' tlhIngan SuvwI' pagh tlhIngan SuvwI' HoHlu'DI' When a Klingon warrior dies or is killed... S31 pollaH pagh polHa'laH can either keep it or discard it KGT (idiom for "The matter is unimportant" or "It does not make any difference.") vIpollaH pagh vIpolHa'laH I can either keep it or I can discard it. KGT DapollaH pagh DapolHa'laH You can either keep it or you can discard it. KGT chaw'vam yIpol 'ej SIbI'Ha' yIlo' pagh 'oH yImech This card may be kept until needed or traded. MKE SEE ALSO: qoj and/or (conj) 'ej and (conj) Cf. ghap either /or (conj. for nouns) N.B. Do not confuse with the nouns {pagh} "nothing, none" or {pagh} "no one"; the number {pagh} "zero"; or the ship name {pagh} Pagh (TNG "A Matter of Honor"). {pagh} is also the fan name of Eric Andeen. -- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons