tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 04 10:27:50 2000
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Re: KLBC: relative clauses again (and some un-relative-clause stuff)
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: relative clauses again (and some un-relative-clause stuff)
- Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:27:16 -0500
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Voragh:
: Another tack: *{ghewghu}/*{ghughew} or *{ghewpuq}/*{puqghew} for the
"infant"
: (larvae) or "child" (pupae) stages of an insect's life respectively - or do I
: have these backwards? In English infant and child of course refer to humans,
: or at least primates, but we have no idea how Klingon biologists might
classify
: things.
peHruS:
> TKD does refer to (puq) as offspring, indicating that ghew puq and ghargh
> puq are correct.
lughchu' peHruS. For some reason I always thought "offspring" referred only to
children, but I was wrong. According to the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary,
the primary definition (1a) is non-human:
off·spring
noun
plural {offspring} also {offsprings}
Pronunciation: 'of-"spri[ng]
Etymology: Middle English *ofspring*, from Old English, from
*of* off + *springan* to spring
Date: before 12th century
1 a : the progeny of an animal or plant : YOUNG b : CHILD
2 a : PRODUCT, RESULT <scholarly manuscripts--the labored
offsprings of PhDs -- Donna Martin> b : OFFSHOOT 1a
toH, <Hoch jaj vay' chu' Daghoj> jatlh SoSwI'.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons