tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 14 13:28:54 1997
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Re: Yet another update to New Words
- From: "Donald E. Vick" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Yet another update to New Words
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:16:24 -0700 (PDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Bill Willmerdinger" at Jul 14, 97 10:53:32 am
Bill Willmerdinger wrote:
>
> William H. Martin wrote:
>
> > As you see more problems, please let me know. For those just
> > looking for additions, you should note that I fixed an earlier
> > blunder where I falsely listed {woj} with {Say'qu'moH}'s
> > definition. HIvqa' veqlargh!
>
> Just one item. I posted this to the list at the time it happened,
> perhaps you were not reading then (April).
>
> When I met Okrand at BabelCon in April, we "purchased" him at the slave
> suction. His "official" duty was to clarify one word: {toQDuj} "bird of
> prey (type of ship)". According to Marc, a {toQ} is an avian predator
> on the Homeworld whose closest Terran analogue would be a "bird of
> prey". When I told him I had theorized that {toQ} might mean "scout"
> (since that's what a BoP is) he said, no, it's definitely an animal from
> Qo'noS.
So we can add {toQ} to our word lists as an equivalent of the
english {raptor}, qar'a'?
wIvqu', law'wI'pu'vaD Holtej jIH
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