[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jaQ

Steven Boozer sboozer at uchicago.edu
Wed Jul 18 12:03:03 PDT 2012


Voragh:
>> Related words:
>> Hop  be remote, be far, be deep (v)
>>
>> N.B. "deep space" is {logh Hop}.

De'vID: 
> Has this ever been defined as "be deep" somewhere, or is that inferred
> from {logh Hop} "deep space" (itself inferred from {logh Hop Hut
> tengchaH} "Deep Space Nine")?

You're right.  I may well have done that when I added the text of SkyBox S99 to my notes years ago.  AFAIK Okrand has never glossed it as "be deep".  I'll remove it.

> It's actually English which is inaccurate here.  Deep space isn't
> really "deep", it's actually "remote" or "far".

"be distant" would be another working gloss.


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



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