[84592] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: be'nalwI' naH yotlh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon May 5 10:49:26 2008
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 09:46:15 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9F10931E-F82D-4FB0-8EDF-0D2EBC7171C1@alcaco.net>
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Voragh:
> >*{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.
ghunchu'wI':
>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.
I only meant that this (non-canonical) word has been used within the
Klingonist community and on this list before, which explains why it wasn't
translated. In the same way that the equally non-canonical *{jabbI'IDghom}
"mailing list, newsgroup, discussion group, listserv" has been in use since
the inception of this tlhingan-hol list. (What's it been now - 16, 17 years?)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
