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

[Christopher Kidder-Mostrom]

Used repeatedly  in the TNG: Klingon Challenge VHS Board Game by Robert
O'Reilly who proclaims "Experience bIj!" whenever a player was to suffer a
negative effect within the game.




On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> > Klingon word: bIj
> > Part of speech: noun
> > Definition: punishment
>
> AFAIK never used in a sentence.
>
> Cultural notes:
>
> "You can't turn me over to the Klingons. They don't just imprison you...
> Do you know what the punishment is for fraud?" (Yranac, [a terrified
> Yridian who had 12 outstanding arrest warrants for fraud and petty theft in
> the Klingon Empire] to Riker, TNG "Gambit Pt. I")
>
> Kortar, the ferryman on the mythical Barge of the Dead, destroyed the gods
> who created him and, as punishment, was condemned to ferry the souls of the
> dishonored dead over the River of Blood to the gates of Grethor. (VOY
> "Barge of the Dead")
>
> "You'll find there are many rules and regulations. They will be posted.
> Violation of the smallest of them will be punished by death [...] From this
> day on, no public assemblages of more than three people. All publications
> to be cleared through this office. Neighborhood controls will be
> established, hostages selected. A somewhat lengthy list of crimes against
> the state." (Kor, TOS "Errand of Mercy")
>
> Related words:
>
> Hup             punish (v)  }
> bIj             punish (v)  } -- [difference is unknown]
>   - qabIj
>     I punish you. KGT
>
> pab             follow (rules, customs, etc.) (v)
> pabHa'          misfollow (the rules), follow (the rules) wrongly) (v)
> bIv             break (rules) (v)
> HeS             commit a crime (v)
> yem             sin (v)
>
> mub             be legal (v)
> Hat             be illegal (v)
>
> jIp             penalty (n)
> ruv             justice (n)
> Sun             discipline (n)
> chut    law (n)
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
>
>
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Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
Artistic Director, Commedia Beauregard
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