Nope. As I wrote: There’s no official spelling but when Captain Nu'Daq was quickly and effortlessly defeated by Data in the *B'aht Qul* challenge (a form of Klingon arm wrestling), he exclaimed *Maw’tok!* in shock. (TNG "The Chase") --Voragh From: tlhIngan-Hol [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org] On Behalf Of mayqel qunenoS voragh quoting "tng the chase":
he exclaimed *Maw’tok!* in shock.
I guess we don't have a canon klingon spelling for maw'tok, right ? qunnoq On 16 Aug 2017 9:10 pm, "Steven Boozer" <sboozer@uchicago.edu<mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu>> wrote: (TKD 6.4): The question word chay' "how?" may be used as a one-word sentence meaning “How did this happen? What happened? What the--?” --Voragh From: tlhIngan-Hol [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org<mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org>] On Behalf Of nIqolay Q There's a few examples you could use when surprised, though the emotion they suggest is more confusion than surprise: {qaStaH nuq jay'} "What the hell is going on?" (from ST6, I think) {chay'} "What the-?" (from TKD) (Maybe you could add {jay'} to the previous example to get {chay' jay'} ("What the hell-?"), which has a nice rhyme to it.) _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org<mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org> http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org