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RE: Klingon WOTD: ruQ (verb)

d Armond Speers, Ph.D. ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

> > >> This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, February 28, 
2005.
> > >>
> > >> Klingon word:   ruQ
> > >> Part of Speech: verb
> > >> Definition:     control manually, by hand
> > >> Source: TKD (106 KE, 141 EK)
> 
> ngabwI':
> > > I thought this was {raQ}
> 
> Holtej:
> >{raQ} is a "camp (military)".  {ruQ} is "control manually."
> 
> Voragh:
> ngabwI' is right.

No, {raQ} is "manipulate by hand, handle"; {ruQ} is "control manually, 
by hand."  Maybe these are different, maybe they're not, but since the 
definitions are different, I list them both with separate entries.

TKD p. 105 (KE), 123 (EK): raQ (n) camp (military term)
TKD p. 106 (KE), 141 (EK): ruQ (v) control manually, by hand
KGT p. 226 (KE), 245, 249 (EK): raQ (v) manipulate by hand, handle

> This may be a typo, a look-up error or a mis-remembering by Okrand 
for 
> {ruQ} when he was writing KGT.  But since this is the form he's 
described 
> with examples, as opposed to just a brief listing in a glossary, I'm 
> inclined to use {raQ} over {ruQ}.  

Your inclination is fine, but my presentation of the entry was not 
wrong.  The worst that can be said is that it was incomplete, failing 
to note the similarity between the verbs {raQ} and {ruQ}.  This kind 
of observation is exactly the reason we have KWOTD, to help identify 
these kinds of issues!

> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

--Holtej

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