[tlhIngan Hol] ra'ghom

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Thu Aug 3 11:52:03 PDT 2017


On 8/3/2017 2:44 PM, De'vID wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 3, 2017 6:37 PM, "SuStel" <sustel at trimboli.name 
> <mailto:sustel at trimboli.name>> wrote:
>
>     On 8/3/2017 12:29 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
>>     On another thread, our honorable Canon master shared with us the sentence:
>>
>>     tera' jar Soch, DIS wa' Hut jav Hut, maSDaq SaqmeH Qu' wa'Dich HochHom
>>     turlu'taHvIS, wej logh lengwI'pu' pa'mey 'oH APOLLO wa'maH wa' ra'ghom
>>     bobcho' COLOMBIA'e'.
>>
>>     The Apollo 11 Command Module, Columbia, was the living quarters for
>>     the three-person crew during most of the first manned lunar landing
>>     mission in July 1969.  (NASM)
>>
>>     maj..
>>
>>     But what the jay' is {ra'ghom} ? All I knew of, was the tkd's
>>     {ra'ghomquv} for "high command".
>
>     Good catch! This seems to be a new word that no one has noticed
>     before (so far as I can remember). I wonder what the best way to
>     translate it is? Clearly, just /command/ by itself is insufficient.
>
> As a matter of fact, the Canon Master himself hypothesised the 
> existence of this word in 2010:
> https://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2010/January/msg00051.html
>
> *ra'ghom  command staff? < ra'ghomquv

Since the word wasn't used by Okrand until 2016, I think we have to give 
the credit of its discovery to qunnoq.

-- 
SuStel
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