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Re: More New Words!



Neal Schermerhorn wrote:
> 
> charghwI' posted a question to MO on the MSN BBS a while back - since he is
> apparently traveling, I will post it here for him.
> 
> >Marc,
> >
> > On Conversational Klingon, you used a word for "expensive" and there have
> > been arguments as to whether this word was {waH} or {wagh}. Could you
> > settle this once and for all? It is not so much that it matters which it is
> > so long as we all use the same word and stop arguing about it.
> 
> And here is MO's response - oh boy!
> 
> >I hope this word isn't overly expensive (that is, I hope nobody has
> >anything riding on my answer), but here's the deal.
> >
> >{wagh} is "be expensive."
> >
> >{waH} means "try out, use (experimentally)" and it is also the word used
> >for "taste" in the sense of trying out food to see if it's prepared
> >properly or to find out if you like it.  Another verb, {mum}, means "taste"

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