tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 12 06:06:19 1994
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>mojaq:mojaQ< debate--was Re: Hech
On Sun, 11 Dec 1994 [email protected] wrote:
> >From: [email protected] (Silauren Half-Elven)
>
> >*TKD*Daq //mojaQ// Hech *suffix* 'ach *TKD*Daq *suffix* Hech >//mojaq//.
> >lughtaH //mojaQ// //mojaq// ghap. lughtaH nuq?
>
> Anyways, since this post was about the word {mojaq}, I'll voice my own
> opinion on how that goes and see just what comes of it with the rest of you.
> On the K-E side, it is {mojaq}. On the E-K side, it is {mojaQ}. So how are we
> to know which it is? Well, the word for "prefix" is {moHaq} on both sides and
> I'd just like the symmetry that would exist between these two words if it
> were {mojaq}. {mojaq} & {moHaq}. Nice symmetry. I know that's a huge
> assumption and I could be way out in left field, like I am usually anyways,
> so I'm just waiting for God's final word on how this should be.
>
Based on the other errors in TKD that have been established, it is more
likely to have been >mojaQ<. It seems to be the rule that the typesetter
forgot to capitalize occasionally, as is the case with the couple >s< and
>i< that creep in... And frankly, I prefer my Klingon without symmetry :-)
Dave.