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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghel (v)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ghel (v)
• Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:07:32 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

: Klingon word:   ghel
: Part of Speech: verb
: Definition:     ask (a question)
: 
: Okrand, HolQeD 7:4: What I wanted to do with {tlhob} and {ghel} is to 
: distinguish between two different meanings for the English verb "ask."  
: There are two "ask's."  There's the "ask" where you ask a question and 
: there's "ask" where you make a request.  I wanted it to be two different 
: verbs, though apparently there are times when the "request" verb is used 
: to ask a question as well [PK: lutlhob naDevvo' vaS'a'Daq majaHlaH'a'?] So 
: maybe the way it works is that {ghel} can ask a question and only as a 
: question and the other one can mean that and is also use [sic] to request 
: or plead or something like that.

{ghel} has never been used by Okrand in a sentence.  To summarize:

  {tlhob} "ask, request, ask, plead"
  {ghel}  "ask (a question)"

and don't forget:

  {yu'}   "question, interrogate"

Variations of {tlhob} include:

  {poQ}   "demand, require"
  {qap}   "insist"



-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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