tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 13 18:19:03 1997
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Re: Hi, and is there a word for...
|On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Voragh wrote:
|
|> *ngaqwI' lit. a "supporter". The Klingon Language Institute has used
|> {Hov leng ngaqwI'pu'} for "Star Trek fans" in a couple of
|> its documents.
|
|I was guilty of this in a letter I wrote a couple of days ago; /ngaq/ is
|a noun, not a verb. Is it listed somewhere as a verb? Why do so many
|people, keepers of canon and speakers alike, make this mistake?
|
|--Holtej
In my case, I saw that I had originally entered "ngaq support (mil?)" in my
notes and didn't waste time and disk space recording the part of speech. At
the time I must have thought it was obvious. (I've since added the note.)
Then yesterday I searched "fan" and came up with the three hits I posted.
Since it was, I thought, a simple question, I didn't bother to verify the
entry in TKD.
Lesson: never assume.
-- Voragh