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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, February 19, 2016
> 
> Klingon word: meq
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: reason

AFAIK never used by Okrand in a sentence.

Cf. idiom {notlh tonSaw'lIj} "Your argument is invalid". (qep'a' 2012, via Felix Malmenbeck, 9/01/2012)

Note the homophonous noun {meq} "reason, motive":

KGT 154:  A close standard equivalent is {meq} (reason)--that is, logical thinking.

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") He was referring to the proverb:

  ram meqmey 
  Motives are insignificant.  TKW

Note also {meqba'} *mek'ba* (type of legal proceeding: i.e. that portion of a Klingon trial or appeal in which evidence is heard during which all evidence must be heard in open council [cf. TNG "Sins of the Father"])

SEE ALSO:
Hech 		intend, mean to (v)
Qub		think (v)
Har 		belive (v)
Sov		know (v)

ghoH 		argue, dispute (v)
Sol 		quarrel (v)
qap 		insist (v)
ja'chuq 	discuss (v)
tlhoch 	contradict (v)
qagh 		interrupt (v)
poQ 		demand (v)

ngoQ 		goal, purpose (n)
vIt 		truth (n)


--
Voragh
tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a'
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons