Re: [tlhIngan Hol] expressing "the nerve of this guy"

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 15:22, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

I'm not exactly sure how everyone has decided that Klingons view *qajunpaQ* as necessarily positive. We're told it fairly clearly about *butlh* in TKW. But for *qajunpaQ* it seems to me to be pretty much an exact correspondence to the idiomatic sense of *nerve,* neutral without context. The only special connotation we're told about *qajunpaQ* is that it implies a surprising or reckless kind of courage that the neutral *toDuj* does not.

Given that Kang "almost killed Curzon that day" for the latter's display of {qajunpaQ}, it's pretty clearly not necessarily positive from a Klingon point of view. -- De'vID