tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 28 13:22:20 2003
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Re: jaghla'
Viktor Horak:
> > In TKD section 6.2.4. PURPOSE CLAUSES is a sentence
> >
> > ja?chuqmeH rojHom neH jaghla?
>(ja'chuqmeH rojHom neH jaghla')
>
> > The enemy commander wishes a truce (in order) to confer.
>
> > I don?t question minor misspellings in TKD,
> > like i insted of I, or a wrong letter in some words,
> > they are easy to correct, but this word I?d like to
> > make sure about.
marqoS:
>I don't know why Dr. Okrand would have made a compound out of
>{jagh la'}. Perhaps this sentence dates from an earlier
>stage of the language when compounding was the norm for the
>sense of the modern noun-noun construction? I defer to others
>on the list; perhaps some consensus has been reached.
I've always thought that it had more to do with the basic us/them
distinction for KLingons. For such a belligerent species the idea of a
specific, unnamed "enemy commander" is so common that s/he's needs a unique
title -- i.e. There he is over there, on the battlefield. Someone kill him!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons