tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 03 14:23:13 2002
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Re: po'
Voragh wrote:
: Yet another option is {po'} "expert". Considentally, {pIn} is also
: slang term for "expert, authority" according to KGT.
'ISqu'
> Actually, KGT (p. 159) says:
> "The nonslang term for an expert is *po'wI'* (literally, "one who is
expert, skilled")."
>
> The word {po'wI'} appears only in the text. It is not listed in the
dictionary section.
Thanks. I've corrected my notes.
DloraH:
>Because it is simply the verb po' with the suffix -wI'; and po' is listed in
>one of the word lists.
The noun *{po'} has been floating around for a few years. According to my
notes, Mark Okrand once inscribed Mark Reed's copy of TKD with {tlhIngan
Hol po'}, which I interpret as "Klingonist" (lit. "Klingon language
expert"). I don't have any source for this, so the story may well be
apocryphal. This was tentative evidence for *{po'} being a homophonous
noun with the verb {po'} "be expert, be skilled". (I also have a similar
note for *{pabpo'} "grammarian" (?) as "MO's inscription in someone's
TKD?" which may actually refer to the same unconfirmed inscription.)
Now that Okrand has used the derived noun {po'wI'} in KGT, however, I can
mark *{po'} as unconfirmed in my notes. If Okrand did write *{po'} when
autographing copies of TKD, he probably mis-remembered it. We know that
Okrand hasn't memorized the entire vocabulary since he doesn't use Klingon
on a daily basis, and has to look most words up in the various
glossaries. (Those of us who have trouble memorizing vocabulary can take
some comfort from this!)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons