tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 18 07:42:25 2005
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Re: nughQeD
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