[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: De' QulwI'

[DloraH]

In the cities I've lived in, the public library system had more than one
building.  There were several paq nojwI' qach scattered around the city.
I think paq nojwI' tum refers to that overall collection of buildings
that work together to make up the "Public Library" that most cities
have.
I think he included "public" in parentheses because I'm think a private
library would probably be just one building, and thus wouldn't need a
separate "agency".


- DloraH


On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 18:49 +0000, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> Speaking as a librarian, I was thrilled to see that these terms exist; I missed them initially, somehow.
> To me, the {paq nojwI' qach} is the literal building housing the books and the staff, while the {tum} refers to the entity more abstractly. If you said, "I'll check the Library and see if they have that" and you used your phone app or the on-line catalog, it would be the {tum} you are accessing, but not the {qach}. If you are talking about visiting the library, I don't see much difference. I also don't see how {tum} implies "public", but that's how it's glossed, so be it.
> 
> BTW, I would qualify {De' QulwI'} as not just "librarian", but specifically "research librarian". In fact, as the term stands, it could refer to anyone in the data analysis or research field. {paq nojwI'} is much more appropriate for what I do all day.
> ter'eS
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>       From: "Michael Roney, Jr." <nahqun at gmail.com>
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>  Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 12:38 PM
>  Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: De' QulwI'
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> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> > Also from qepHom 2016:
> >
> >   paq nojwI' qach       library (building) (n)
> >   paq nojwI' tum                library (public) (n)
> >
> 
> Do we know what the difference between libraries is?
> 
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