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

[mayqel qunenoS]

voragh:
> See Okrand’s note on this in *HolQeD* 5.2.

Since I don't have HolQeD, could you post here this article ?

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On 29 Dec 2016 10:21 pm, "DloraH" <seruq at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >       From: "Michael Roney, Jr." <nahqun at gmail.com>
> >  To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <tlhingan-hol at kli.org>
> >  Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 12:38 PM
> >  Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: De' QulwI'
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > --
> > ~Michael Roney, Jr.
> > Freelance Translator
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