<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:05 PM, SuStel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" target="_blank">sustel@trimboli.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="gmail-"></span><p>Yes, as canonical as "quab jee nah geel." That's the canon of <i>Star
Trek,</i> not the canon of Okrand. They are not the same thing.<br></p></div></blockquote><div style="transition: transform 1s ease 0s;">To quote KGT:<br><br>"While the conventional phrases used in some rituals are uttered in modern Klingon (such as those used in the Rite of Ascension, a ceremony symbolizing a young Klinggon's attainment of a certain spiritual level), those used in a great many others are in a form of <b>no' Hol</b> (such as those associated with the <b>bIreqtal</b> [<i>brek'tal</i>], the ceremony in which the killer of the leader of a Klingon house marries the widow and thereby becomes the head of the house himself). In these cases, the phrases must be studied and memorized by the participants, then repeated back accurately. Improvising or paraphrasing is entirely inappropriate. Depending on when the phrases for the ritual originated, the words and grammatical constructions may be somewhat like or very different from those of modern Klingon. If the words have survived into modern Klingon but some of the grammatical features have not, it may sound as if the celebrant is speaking improper, ungrammatical Klingon. This is not the case, though the same phrase uttered away from the ritualistic context would be taken as such."<br><br>I interpret this passage (and others from the same chapter) to mean that Okrand is taking the gibberish and bad translations from the shows (like, say, <b>Qab jIH ngIl</b>) and lumping them together in the general category of <b>no' Hol</b>, explaining away the use of bad grammar and pronunciation on the show as "well, they're just doing it like they did in the old days". He doesn't explain what the different grammar and pronunciation rules were like back then, or otherwise elaborate on the syntax of <b>Qab jIH ngIl</b>. But the aberrant grammar and pronunciation are nonetheless accounted for canonically as an archaic form of the language. In other words, "quab jee nah geel" <i>is</i> the canon of Okrand, though not in any way that relates to modern Klingon or that can really be learned from.<br></div></div></div></div>