tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jun 21 04:11:24 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] lung
- From: "De'vID" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] lung
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 13:11:11 +0200
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André Müller:
It depends on where you draw the arbitrary line
> between N and N-'a'. After all, it's just a suggestion. Interpretation
> depends on the speaker. After all, the meaning we got from Okrand is
> "serpent, worm". We don't know how big Klingon gharghmey can be.
Actually, we do. The word {ghargh} originally referred to the giant
worm- or serpent-like creature on the Genesis Planet which attacked
and wrapped itself around Kruge. (This one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:S03-kruge_fights_the_worms.png )
So {ghargh} can, with no suffix, refer to something comparable in size
to a Klingon.
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De'vID
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