tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 03 15:29:08 2003
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Re: be'Hom loDHom je
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: be'Hom loDHom je
- Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 16:25:41 -0400
>From: Tad Stauffer <[email protected]>
>>But it would also make sense that since we have a <be'> and a <be'Hom>
>>to have a <be''a'>
>Before you read below what I think {be''a'} might be, consider what *you*
>think of when you hear {be''a'}. I'm sure the grammarians that were on the
>panel from the qep'a' will have more to add :-)
I was on the panel! Personally, the panel convinced me, more than ever,
that the interpretation of non-lexical appearances of /-Hom/ and /-'a'/
depends very much on the context. Unless we're told what Klingons think of
the word, if they have any standard interpretation at all, we can only
decide its meaning based on the context of its use.
(My first thought, by the way, was of a head woman, maybe of a harem or the
wife of the leader of a Klingon house or, in rare instances, the leader
herself).
SuStel
Stardate 3588.9
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