[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: yepHa'

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon word:   yepHa'
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition:     be careless
 
AFAIK neither {yep} "be careful" nor {yepHa'} "be careless" have been used in canon.  (Is it used in the {paq'batlh}?)

Language notes:

KGT 30:  while the verb {ghIH} means "be messy, sloppy" in {ta' Hol} and in most dialects, in the towns near Ruk'evet ({ruq'e'vet}), {ghIH} means "be careless". The more widespread word for be careless is {yepHa'}, and this word is used in addition to {ghIH} in the Ruk'evet area. To say "be messy, sloppy", the Ruk'evet inhabitants say {Soy'}, a verb meaning "be clumsy" elsewhere. The Ruk'evet word for be clumsy is {jat}, which is phonetically identical to the noun meaning "tongue".

KGT 83:  one must never be careless when preparing food.

KGT 138:  the characteristic patterns of younger people's speech, if noticed and commented upon, are more likely to be judged sloppy or careless rather than wrong.

Related verbs:
Dugh 	be vigilant
ghuH 	prepare for
Hoj 		be cautious


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons