tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 19 21:44:25 1996
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Re: Interview with Okrand
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Interview with Okrand
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:43:53 -0500
In a message dated 96-02-19 17:51:16 EST, you write:
>But the most famous Klingon food is probably gagh.
> >
> > That word, I think, comes from me, but it got mangled a little bit. I
> > made up a word for "serpent" or "worm" (ghargh). When the actors said
> > it, the pronunciation changed a bit. So I decided that ghargh was a
worm
>
> > that was crawling on the ground, and gagh was the same creature when
> > prepared as food.
This is a third spelling/pronunciation for "serpent worm cooked as food." We
already have qagh in TKD and ghaq as spoken in TNG. But, because this one
comes from MO most recently, can we take this one as the correct spelling?
peHruS