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Re: Klingon WOTD: Hov (noun)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol taghwI']

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In a message dated 7/7/2005 5:04:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> Okrand wrote in TKD (p. 20):
> > >   The syllable {'ej} also occurs in {'ejyo'} "Starfleet". There are,
> > >   however, no known Klingon words {'ej}, {Do'}, or {yo'} that have
> > >   anything to do with Starfleet, starships, the Federation, or space
> > >   vehicles of any kind.
> 
> lay'tel SIvten:
> >Except that {yo'} is given in original TKD as a noun meaning "fleet (of
> >ships)", which clearly contradicts the paragraph cited above.
> 
> He says it has nothing to do with *space* vehicles.  Presumably he meant 
> that {yo'} originally referred to an *ocean-going* fleet and was only later 
> applied analogously to spacecraft, which is generally what we've done in 
> English. 

But it obviously has to do with fleets, which means it has to do with 
Starfleet.  

lay'tel SIvten

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