[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: luj
Steven Boozer
sboozer at uchicago.edu
Fri Nov 15 07:13:13 PST 2013
> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, November 15, 2013
>
> Klingon word: luj
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: fail, lose (a contest)
lujpu' jIH
I have failed. TKD
lujpu' jIH'e'
I, and only I, have failed. TKD
bIlujlaHbe'chugh bIQaplaHbe'
If you cannot fail, you cannot succeed.
("If you cannot lose, you cannot win"). TKW
wo' choqmeH may' DoHlu'chugh lujbe'lu'
"ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat." TKW
HQ 2.4 p.18: To win a competition is {Qap}. (If it's a decisive or particularly gratifying victory, they'd say {Qapchu'}, even though that's a bit redundant... To a Klingon, to win is to function perfectly. The opposite notion, "lose", is commonly luj, also meaning "fail".
KGT 165f.: The slang expression is used in such constructions as {bIvonlu'pu'} ("You have failed completely"; literally, "You have been trapped"). In standard Klingon, the same idea may be expressed by saying {lujbej} ("certainly fail"), {lujchu'} ("fail perfectly"), or {lujqu'} ("really fail"), all based on {luj} ("fail"). Note that {luj} is also used to mean lose (as in "lose at a game"). To say "I lose" is {jIluj}; to say "I lose in a big way" is {jIlujqu'} or {jIlujchu'}.
"This is war, a game we Klingons play to win." (Kor, TOS "Errand of Mercy")
Similar words:
Qap win (a competition, or a war) (v)
ghatlh dominate (v)
chargh be victorious (v)
qaD challenge, test, contest (n)
Quj game (n)
yay victory (n)
- yay chav achieve victory (phrase)
chIl lose, misplace (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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