[Tlhingan-hol] lung

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 04:11:11 PDT 2014


André Müller:
It depends on where you draw the arbitrary line
> between N and N-'a'. After all, it's just a suggestion. Interpretation
> depends on the speaker. After all, the meaning we got from Okrand is
> "serpent, worm". We don't know how big Klingon gharghmey can be.

Actually, we do. The word {ghargh} originally referred to the giant
worm- or serpent-like creature on the Genesis Planet which attacked
and wrapped itself around Kruge. (This one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:S03-kruge_fights_the_worms.png )

So {ghargh} can, with no suffix, refer to something comparable in size
to a Klingon.

-- 
De'vID



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