[tlhIngan Hol] How would you express "root of a tree" ?

[mayqel qunen'oS]

De'vID:
> Why? What reason is there to believe that
> the "serpent" in the definition of {ghargh}
> means anything other than that a serpent
> would be referred to generically as a
> {ghargh} in Klingon?

Let me ask you.

If I say {muSujpu' ghargh mIllogh}, what am I saying ?

The picture of a serpent disturbed me, or the picture of a worm disturbed
me ?

Since {ghargh} can mean both, how could someone say that I don't need to
specify further ?

There is a line in matthew, where jesus says something like (I don't have
the original text at hand now):

"who of you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a serpent ?"

Suppose I wrote:

{‘ej ghotI’ HevmeH wa’ nuv puqloD, tlhobchugh puqvam, puqvamvaD ghargh nob
vay’ ?}

Can't the reader here assume that the {ghargh} could mean "worm" instead ?

Now, don't tell me "it wouldn't make for a big difference in meaning", or
"to a klingon it would be the same".

Because it would make a *major* difference in meaning, and klingons as well
as their understanding of things, can burn in hell for all I care.

De'vID:
> Does anyone else on the mailing list have
> any reservation about using {ghargh} to
> mean "serpent"?

You misunderstood me. I'm not saying {ghargh} can't be used to mean
"serpent". I *am* saying though, that since it can mean worm too, one needs
to specify what he's talking about.

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