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

[Bellerophon, modeler]

Sancho Panza vIttlegh choqawmoH. bal ngeQchugh nagh pagh nagh ngeHchugh
bal, balvaD qab. "Whether the rock hits the pitcher or the pitcher hits the
rock, it's going to be bad for the pitcher."
~'eD

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>
wrote:

> > Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, December 11, 2014
> >
> > Klingon word: ngeQ
> > Part of speech: verb
> > Definition: bump into, run into, collide with
>
> KGT 157f.:  The word [{paw'}] literally means "collide" and is usually
> (though hardly exclusively) heard when referring to vehicles. In both its
> literal and slang usages, {paw'} takes a plural subject ... {paw'
> lupDujHommey} ("The shuttlecraft collide"). To refer to a something in
> motion colliding with something stationary, a different verb, {ngeQ} ("bump
> into, collide with") is used, as in {raS ngeQ tera'ngan} ("The Terran bumps
> into the table"). When the subject of {paw'} is persons, the most common
> interpretation of the verb is the slang one-that is, butt heads. ... When
> the subject of {paw'} is anything other than persons, the most likely
> interpretation is the non-slang one, collide. If one wanted to say that two
> persons collide but not imply that they butt heads, the verb {ngeQ} would
> probably be used along with the suffix {-chuq} (each other) as in "ngeQchuq
> tera'nganpu'} ("The Terrans collide with each other").
>
> --
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