tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 02 14:24:37 2001
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RE: KLBC-Reflexive verb suffixes
taD:
: Keep in mind that {pe''egh} also means "keep score", since apparently
: Klingons would use marks/scratches on an arm in order to record victories.
So did we, though maybe not on our persons!
I just realized that in English, to score means, inter alia:
1 a : to keep a record or account of by or as if by notches on a tally
b : to enter in a record
c : to mark with significant lines or notches (as in keeping account)
2 to mark with lines, grooves, scratches, or notches
As in English, context keeps the two meanings distinct.
(Is this yet another bit of Okrandian wordplay?)
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons