Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Klingon word: DeQ Part of speech: noun Definition: credit (monetary unit) Source: TKD This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh@kli.org).
Klingon word: DeQ Part of speech: noun Definition: credit (monetary unit) Source: TKD _______________________________________________ wa' DeQ One credit. CK cha'SaD DeQ 2000 credits. PK vaghSaD DeQ HInob! Give me 5,000 credits! PK (TKW 7): ... perhaps, to the Klingon way of thinking, while one is alive, one must sacrifice or give up something (the way one uses credits or latinum when making a purchase) in order to ensure that the spirit is one's own. Cf. also {QaS} "forces" (used as money in Monopoly) SEE ALSO: DarSeq *darsek* [unit of Klingon currency, e.g. a coin] (n) Huch money (n) Huch chaw' credit card (n) (TNK) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 17:34 Steven Boozer, <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
Klingon word: DeQ Part of speech: noun Definition: credit (monetary unit) Source: TKD
SEE ALSO: DarSeq *darsek* [unit of Klingon currency, e.g. a coin] (n)
I have a theory that a writer looked up {DeQ}, didn't like the way "1000 dekks" (or whatever the number was) sounded when spoken in English, and decided to insert "arse" into the middle. -- De'vID
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