[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mI' tej
Steven Boozer
sboozer at uchicago.edu
Wed Jun 21 11:40:29 PDT 2017
Voragh wrote:
> Note that this is given as two words while the only other official
> example {'otlhtej} "someone who studies quantum mechanics" from qepHom
> 2014 is one. Okrand has warned us, however, that spelling in compound
> nouns is somewhat fluid WRT word breaks.
SapIr asked:
>> Wait, I thought {Holtej} was also a compound. Is that not official?
It is here. I think most of us use it for "linguist, philologist" but AFAIK Okrand has never vetted it. (Anyone know differently?) {Holtej} was the Klingon name of d'Armond Speers, who I believe was one of the founding members of this mailing list back in the 1990's.
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Voragh
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