I've always liked this word, namely because we used it as part of the name of what is celebrated in the "Klingon Christmas Carol" ... ram nI' tay.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Qov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robyn@flyingstart.ca" target="_blank">robyn@flyingstart.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As I read this this morning, I said, "Hmm, I wonder what Marc thinks of wearing a tie?"<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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At 09:32 '?????' 6/19/2012, Steven Boozer wrote:<br>
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> Klingon word: tay<br>
> Part of speech: noun<br>
> Definition: ceremony, rite, ritual<br>
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Never used by itself in a sentence, but {tay} does appear in many compounds:<br>
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chontay ritual hunt (n)<br>
Heghtay Death Ritual (n)<br>
muvtay initiation (n)<br>
nentay Rite of Ascension (n)<br>
qutluch tay Kut'luch Ceremony (n)<br>
ruStay R'uustai, bonding ritual (n)<br>
tayqeq civilization (n)<br>
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Others on the List have suggested:<br>
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*Darghtay Tea Ceremony (?)<br>
*majQa' tay Rite of MajQa (?)<br>
*naltay mating ritual (?)<br>
*ngaghtay mating ritual (?)<br>
*tlhoghtay wedding, marriage ceremony (?)<br>
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Cultural notes:<br>
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KGT 11: While the conventional phrases used in some rituals are uttered in modern Klingon (such as those used in the Rite of Ascension, a ceremony symbolizing a young Klingon's attainment of a certain spiritual level), those used in a great many others are in a form of {no' Hol} (such as those associated with the {bIreqtal} [brek'tal], the ceremony in which the killer of the leader of a Klingon house marries the widow and thereby becomes the head of the house himself). In these cases, the phrases must be studied and memorized by the participants, then repeated back accurately. Improvising or paraphrasing is entirely inappropriate. Depending on when the phrases for the ritual originated, the words and grammatical constructions may be somewhat like or very different from those of modern Klingon.<br>
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KGT 133: Younger Klingons, while accepting their heritage and observing the ancient rites, see some aspects of their elders' behavior and beliefs as, if not obsolete, then just old-fashioned.<br>
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Apparently the idiom is {tay lop} "observe/celebrate a ritual":<br>
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Heghtay lulop latlh tlhInganpu'. Heghtay luloptaHvIS chaH chaq bey SeQ lujach<br>
other Klingons may perform a ceremonial howl or yell as part of the Klingon death ritual. S31<br>
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nentay loptaHvIS tlhIngan potlh tlhIngan 'oy'naQ'e'<br>
The Klingon Painstik is an important part of a Klingon's Age of Ascension ceremony. S32<br>
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Related words:<br>
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lop celebration (n)<br>
lop observe, celebrate (a ritual) (v)<br>
SeQ be formal/ritualistic/ceremonial (v)<br>
SeQHa' be informal (v)<br>
tay be civilized (v)<br>
taymoH civilize (v)<br>
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Voragh<br>
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<br>
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