Klingon Word of the Day: QongDaq 'echlet tun
Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, March 23, 2017 Klingon word: QongDaq 'echlet tun Part of speech: noun Definition: mattress Source: qepHom 2016 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh@kli.org).
Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, March 23, 2017
Klingon word: QongDaq 'echlet tun Part of speech: noun Definition: mattress Source: qepHom 2016
Lit. "soft bed board" When Captain K'Vada showed Picard to his quarters aboard his Bird-of-Prey, he slapped the hard bed - actually, more like a sleeping shelf - and sneered, "You will sleep Klingon-style. We do not cushion our bodies by putting down a pad." Nonplussed, Picard slapped the "bed" himself and replied, "Good. I like it that way." (TNG "Unification I") When Worf moved onto the Defiant to get away from the station, he removed the Starfleet-issue mattress from the bed in his quarters, patted the hard bare metal frame and grunts in satisfaction. Jadzia has observed him and asks, "Better?" Worf replies, "Much." (DS9 "Bar Association") -- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
Am 23.03.2017 um 16:10 schrieb Steven Boozer:
Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, March 23, 2017
Klingon word: QongDaq 'echlet tun Part of speech: noun Definition: mattress Source: qepHom 2016
Lit. "soft bed board"
Related words: {ngogh tun} "pillow" Maltz first said that Klingons don't have pillows and he wondered why anyone would want one. But he's seen them (somewhere) and knows what they are. So when pushed -- "If you have to call it something, what would you call it?" -- he said {ngogh tun}. (qepHom 2010) {QongDaq buq} "pillow" or "sleeping bag" He thought more about it and said maybe another way to say "pillow" was {QongDaq buq} "bed pouch," but he said that could also apply to a sleeping bag. Perhaps a sleeping bag is {QongDaq buq'a'} and a pillow is {QongDaq buqHom}. (qepHom 2010) -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net
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