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Re: *boHem*ngan bomnong



It is absolutely important to emphasize that anytime you use a word that 
is not in direct evidence in the corpus to flag it.

And of course, the traditional way is simple.  Just remember to put an 
asterisk in front of the word which is not in evidence, e.g.
>  *SIp  <   n sheep   <transliteration of English to describe Terran animal

And if you are using a word in a questionable way, recall the correct 
form is to place a interrogation mark before the word, e.g.
>  ?Qong  <  n sleep, the condition of  <backformation from >QongDaq< n bed

This way, while you're enjoying the learning of Klingon, you also are 
learning some proper linguistic methods at the same time!  See, Klingon 
actually isn't a waste of time.... :-) 

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