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Re: nughQeD

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



At 07:26 AM Tuesday 1/18/2005, Yens Wahlgren wrote:

>>Klingon word:     nugh
>>Part of Speech:   noun
>>Definition:       society
>>Additional Notes: KGT adds "group of people with shared culture."
>
>An other additional note: For my thesis "Hol Sup 'oH tlhIngan Hol'e' -
>wa'maH Hut tlhIngan Hol po'wI' nughQeD" I asked Marc Okrand if it would be
>right to use "nughQeD" for"sociology" and he okayed it and said it was just
>the word he would use. So I guess it's some sort of canon.

I think many of us had been using {nughQeD} informally, but it's nice to 
have confirmation.  We can now add this to the list of known sciences 
formed with {QeD} "science":

   {HolQeD}        linguistics
   {HuchQeD}       economics
   {nughQeD}       sociology
   {porghQeD}      the scientific study of bodily functions (anatomy?)
   {Hov leng QeD}  "Treknology"

We have no canonical examples, but most of us have been using {tej} 
"scientist" for a practitioner of such sciences - e.g. {HolQeD} 
"linguistics" > *{Holtej} "linguist" - which would make Yens our first 
officially acknowledged {tlhIngan nughtej} or Klingon sociologist.  majQa'!

Of course, for all we know Klingons may use another word, such as {po'wI'} 
"expert" or the slang term {pIn} "expert, authority" (lit. "boss") as on ships:

   The word {pIn} is also found in nonslang terms referring to crew
   members on a ship: {QeDpIn} (science officer), {QumpIn} (communi-
   cations officer).  [KGT 158]

So if the Klingon Defense Forces routinely assigned field or combat 
xeno-sociologists to their warships, s/he would be known, perhaps 
ironically, as the ship's *{nughpIn}.  <g>




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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