[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: nep
Steven Boozer
sboozer at uchicago.edu
Mon Aug 25 07:19:39 PDT 2014
> Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, August 25, 2014
>
> Klingon word: nep
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: lie, fib
bInep
You lie. You're lying. (TKD)
Cf. {nepwI'} "liar"
nepwI' Daba'
He is obviously lying. (TKD < TNG "A Matter of Honor")
[In the script this line is: *yI-Har-Qo! nep-we' ghaH!* (tevram) = {yIHarQo'! nepwI' ghaH} ("He's a liar") "it's more likely that [Okrand] was doing a bit of backfitting to an accidental extra syllable spoken by the actor in the Next Generation episode. It sounds a lot like {nepwI' Daba'}, but if you listen carefully and watch his mouth, he's apparently saying "nepwee ga-ba", which I figure was originally {nepwI' ghaH} in the script. Both {Da} and {-ba'} (v6) appear in the Addendum. Most of the Addendum's words can be found in the early TNG episodes and sixth Trek movie." (ghunchu'wI', 6/26/06)]
"If you were not an ambassador I would disembowel you right now!" (Worf to Iyaaran Amb. Byleth, who had accused Worf of lying during a poker game [TNG "Liaisons"])
Klingons may not care whether a falsehood is intentional, but only whether the information is reliable. As Ambassador Kell admonished Worf, "Motives? Who cares for motives? Humans, perhaps." (TNG "The Mind's Eye") This shows up in TKW (p.143) as a proverb: {ram meqmey} "Motives are insignificant".
See also:
lay'Ha' break one's word (v)
lach exaggerate (v)
mIy brag (v)
ngor cheat (v)
yuD be dishonest (v)
toj deceive, trick, bluff (v)
magh betray, act against (v)
bol betray [someone] (slang) (v)
vIt tell the truth (v)
'Ip vow, swear (v)
lay' promise (v)
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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