tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 13 09:47:56 1997
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Re: originality of "jatlhchuqghach"
- From: "eric d. zay" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: originality of "jatlhchuqghach"
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 12:55:03 -0500
> qoror here. I have a slight dilemma. Recently on this list, when I
> needed to write "Conversational Klingon" in tlhIngan Hol, I chose
> "jatlhchuqghachvaD tlhIngan Hol," or, for those of you who are lazy,
"Klingon
> for Conversation." But "jatlhchuqghach" "conversation" sprang in my head
so
> quickly that I have suspicions that I actually didn't make it up. Tell
me, did
> anyone use that word before on this list? If I saw it before, it might
have
> popped it my head and me thinking it was my own invention. Tell me!
> By the way, -egh and -chuq are very good words for -ghach. How about
another
> interesting one that I -know- I thought up? "ghob'eghghach" "civil war."
The name of my clubs news letter is *ja'chuqghach*, and I believe that I
have seen it used on the list here before. I prefer this to
*jatlhchuqghach* simply because *ja'chuq* as a word, is given in TKD, and
because it's a little shorter.
SuSvaj