Klingon word: rejghun Part of speech: noun Definition: undergarments, underwear, underpants, undershirts Source: qep'a' 26 [2019] _______________________________________________ (qep’a’ 2019): “This refers to underwear in general. To be more specific, say {rejghun yopwaH bID}, etc.” PUN: “has anyone considered that rejghun could resemble the Australian rhyming slang term - Reg Grundies' - to mean undies?” (Chris O’Regan) SEE ALSO: yopwaH bID shorts (n) yIvbeH SeQHa' t-shirt (n) tumI' sock (singular n) paSlogh socks (plural n) - "{paSlogh} is an inherently plural noun, grammatically singular. {tu'mI'} the word for one sock. The usual way to say pair of socks is {paSlogh chang'eng}; {tu'mI' chang'eng} is odd, but if you said it, you'd be understood." (De'vID < MO, 1/22/2016) -- Voragh, Ca'Non Master of the Klingons Please contribute relevant vocabulary from recent qep’a’mey or qepHommey. I’ve fallen woefully behind in updating my files.

I’m sure it’s a coincidence, but look in the mirror while you say {rejghun} and “underwear”. It comes across as another one of those things that someone could video in English, then dub in Klingon and put English subtitles to. We know that Okrand did this for specific movie scenes, and we know that he puts puns in the vocabulary, but not all his vocabulary has puns, and since he’s already developed the skill at matching lip movements between radically dissimilar phonemes, I wonder how often that when he comes up with new words he might use this old skill instead of forcing puns into everything. We always look for puns, but I think we stopped looking for the “looks the same, but sounds different” feature of Klingon vocabulary. Hmmm. I wonder if anyone has ever mapped the Klingon-English phonemes in the vocabulary that Okrand has exchanged for the words we know he did this for. Surely, if that sort of nerd exists in the Universe, that nerd is on this list… I’m very nearly that nerd, but I don’t have that much time to give to the task. Has this already been done? If not, is there anybody out there who would feel rewarded by such a project? pItlh charghwI’ ‘utlh (ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)

On Aug 18, 2023, at 10:00 AM, Klingon Word of the Day via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, August 18, 2023

Klingon word: rejghun Part of speech: noun Definition: undergarments, underwear, underpants, undershirts Source: qep'a' 26

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