[90242] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] paq'batlh - sic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Oct 25 08:13:09 2011
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:12:44 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <4EA65E6E.1060607@web.de>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On 10/25/2011 2:59 AM, Lieven Litaer wrote:
>
> Dear Warriors,
>
> I finally got my paq'batlh, and it includes -- as usual -- a nice
> explanation for its name:
>
> Marc Okrand's introduction:
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> We know that the name of the book itself, paq'batlh, is some form of no'
> Hol. It is grammatically backwards from what we find in modern Klingon
> (where it would be batlh paq, or "honor book"). The character we are
> rendereing with an apostrophe in paq'batlh may be a clue to some missing
> grammatical element in no' Hol that may explain the transposition of the
> words.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
toH! See? Never blindly accept something, when Marc may provide an
officially vague alternative. :)
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