Klingon Word of the Day: tawleHnu' pogh
Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, January 05, 2023 Klingon word: tawleHnu' pogh Part of speech: noun Definition: emphatically hopeless situation Source: qepHom 2019 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh@kli.org).
Klingon word: tawleHnu' pogh Part of speech: noun Definition: emphatically hopeless situation Source: qepHom 2019 _______________________________________________ i.e. a snafu (see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/SNAFU ) PUN: “Read it backwards, and figure out the transliterated word that's been inserted into the middle of another word to split it into two parts.” (ghunchu’wI’, 1/03/2022) Maybe I'm from the wrong generation but I don't see the pun. SEE ALSO: tawleHnu' hopeless situation (n) (qepHom 2019) ghu' situation (n) wanI' phenomenon, event, occurrence (n) qagh'a' major blunder (n) Qugh disaster (n) lot catastrophe (n) Haq intervene in (a situation) (v) QIl be desperate (v) - "as when there's no way out, they have nothing to lose. This includes ideas like last-ditch, do-or-die, hopeless, doomed." (Lieven < MO, 2/05/2018) -- 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.
Oops... "major blunder" is spelled {Qagh'a'}. --Voragh ------------------------------Original Message------------------------------ From: tlhIngan-Hol On Behalf Of Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 9:16 AM Klingon word: tawleHnu' pogh Part of speech: noun Definition: emphatically hopeless situation Source: qepHom 2019 _______________________________________________ i.e. a snafu (see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/SNAFU ) PUN: “Read it backwards, and figure out the transliterated word that's been inserted into the middle of another word to split it into two parts.” (ghunchu’wI’, 1/03/2022) Maybe I'm from the wrong generation but I don't see the pun. SEE ALSO: tawleHnu' hopeless situation (n) (qepHom 2019) ghu' situation (n) wanI' phenomenon, event, occurrence (n) qagh'a' major blunder (n) Qugh disaster (n) lot catastrophe (n) Haq intervene in (a situation) (v) QIl be desperate (v) - "as when there's no way out, they have nothing to lose. This includes ideas like last-ditch, do-or-die, hopeless, doomed." (Lieven < MO, 2/05/2018)
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 10:16 AM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol < tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
Klingon word: tawleHnu' pogh [...]
PUN: “Read it backwards, and figure out the transliterated word that's
been inserted into the middle of another word to split it into two parts.” (ghunchu’wI’, 1/03/2022)
Maybe I'm from the wrong generation but I don't see the pun.
Read backwards, {tawleHnu' pogh} is {Hel} in {ghop 'unwat}. -- ghunchu'wI'
Not to be confused with a {pogh tawleHnu’}, which is merely the presumed perspective of a lost glove (the glove’s hopeless situation, assuming that a glove hopes to fulfill its role, covering a hand). It’s not a commonly used term, except as an idiom that has thus far eluded translation. Those who use it seem to also use {ratlhbogh pogh mob} as an alternative, similar to the use of {megh'an} and {‘er’In}. Also, neither of these terms are EVER used in the presence of a SuvwI’ who has lost a hand in battle… … except by an elite group of one-handed Klingon stand-up comics... pItlh charghwI’ ‘utlh (ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)
On Jan 5, 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 Thursday, January 05, 2023
Klingon word: tawleHnu' pogh Part of speech: noun Definition: emphatically hopeless situation Source: qepHom 2019
This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh@kli.org).
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