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HablI'mey (was Re: Stardate)

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: HablI'mey (was Re: Stardate)
• Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:26:00 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

tlhob muHwI':
> By the way, why are there Klingon words for Telephone or faxing machine...

There aren't really "Klingon words" for those meanings.  The phrases
{ghogh HablI'} and {nav HablI'} are merely convenient ways for us to
express the idea of telephone and facsimile machines using Klingon.
They would be dangerously close to either idiomatic usage or "hindsight"
constructions, except that Marc Okrand was involved when they came up
and he didn't object to them.  I consider them to be "canon idiom".

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