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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] qolqoS?

Will Martin ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">While your notes may be interesting, they lack authority without reference to Marc Okrand or Maltz. If you can’t remember where you got your definition, it is not a definition. It’s just your personal spin on how you’d like to use the word. We all can have personal spins on words. I do it all the time.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But I don’t argue that I can define the word for others, unless I can cite exactly where Marc Okrand gave us the word in exactly the form he offered it. Without that, we have no standards.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My own entry for this word is not very satisfying. It appears that I was interrupted while entering it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mine shows, “core, essence” as the only definition and "qep’a’ (2007” as the source. Note the unmatched parenthesis. I also had a check mark in a field named “Needs attention”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anybody else have specific canon citations, rather than simply listing definitions that you have personally developed?</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 14, 2015, at 6:31 AM, André Müller &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; class="">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Surprisingly, my description is different again:<br class=""><br class="">My main definition: fanatical core of a group; the most dedicated of a group<br class="">My additional aids to help me find the word in the dictionary: core member*; essence*; part of something, essential*; heart*<br class=""><br class=""></div>I understand that it describes a person or a group of people who are indeed the biggest fans or experts among a larger group. I'm not sure if it could be used for an inanimate object which is the most important in a group of objects (like the highest peak in a mountain range).<br class=""><br class=""></div>- André<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">2015-09-12 17:59 GMT+02:00 Michael Roney, Jr. <span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank" class="">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span>:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Trying to get my notes in order.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do we have an actual definition of {qolqoS}?</div><div class="">I checked a few different places and got this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">core, essence</div><div class="">core, the (important) core of a group</div><div class="">core of a group, the essential part of something; essence</div><div class="">core, essence, heart</div><div class="">core, heart</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think we can all agree on "core", but what about the rest?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~naHQun</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="">~Michael Roney, Jr.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.twitter.com/roneyii"; target="_blank" class="">http://www.twitter.com/roneyii</a><br class=""><a href="https://plus.google.com/+MichaelRoneyJr/"; target="_blank" class="">https://plus.google.com/+MichaelRoneyJr/</a></div>
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