tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 02 19:48:09 2008
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Re: be'nalwI' naH yotlh
On May 2, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> *{Du'Hom} "(vegetable) garden" - "minor farm" {Du'} - has been
> floating
> around the Klingonist community for a while. Lawrence Schoen
> mentioned it
> in his article "Consensus" in HolQeD 12.3.
Don't get the wrong idea. This "definition" wasn't coined by anyone
in particular. In the consensus experiment, the word {Du'Hom} was
presented without context, and *everyone* who commented on it
interpreted it as referring to a garden. It's been "floating around
the Klingonist community" in exactly the same way that {pem Hov} has:
it's an obvious way to express the idea, and its meaning is clear to
most who encounter it without explanation.