tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 08 18:53:22 1997
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Re: Quickie Question
Dennis & Kim Orosz wrote:
>A friend has taken to using the word cha'wI as Lord siting "The Search
>for Spock" and David Barron as his reference's...
David Barron replies:
>The word is <joHwI'>. <joH>, "lord" plus <-wI'>, type 4 noun suffix of
>possesion of something which uses language.
The other word, {jawwI'}, sounds closer to what the "friend" claims.
>Suffice to say it was either mispronounced or misheard.
If it's from "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", it was "mispronounced"
at the source. :-/ The script said {joHwI'} -- and whoever read it either
didn't know or didn't remember what {H} was supposed to sound like. Poof!
The language gets a second word for "lord"... :-)
-- ghunchu'wI'