[84577] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: be'nalwI' naH yotlh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Fri May 2 22:58:08 2008
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20080502132715.02610640@imap.uchicago.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 22:46:39 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On May 2, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> *{Du'Hom} "(vegetable) garden" - "minor farm" {Du'} - has been
> floating
> around the Klingonist community for a while. Lawrence Schoen
> mentioned it
> in his article "Consensus" in HolQeD 12.3.
Don't get the wrong idea. This "definition" wasn't coined by anyone
in particular. In the consensus experiment, the word {Du'Hom} was
presented without context, and *everyone* who commented on it
interpreted it as referring to a garden. It's been "floating around
the Klingonist community" in exactly the same way that {pem Hov} has:
it's an obvious way to express the idea, and its meaning is clear to
most who encounter it without explanation.
