<div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px">voragh:</span><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px">> That being said, I still think </span><b style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px">tlhoQ</b><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px"> a better choice</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px">I agree. Looking up the meaning of "conglomeration", I understand how it could be used to express "tumor".</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px">Funny thing.. I knew of this word for quite some time now, but I thought that it meant "corporation". hahaha ! And I was thinking, why would klingons have such a word ? Are there corporations on Qo'noS ?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px">But I guess, if DIvI' Hol isn't your native language, such misunderstandings are bound to happen.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#1f497d" face="calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.6933px">~nIghma'</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 16, 2017 11:39 PM, "Steven Boozer" <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Maltz/Okrand defined
<b>ngogh</b> as “a block or lump or brick” and I assumed the general shape was a rectangular solid – which is what they often are in North America -- but we don’t really know what blocks and bricks look like on Kronos.  Considering their fascination for triangles
 and sets of three, Klingons may well think of something pyramidical.  Even the example of
<b>ngogh tun</b> doesn’t help as we’ve seen plenty of exotic triangular pillows on Trek!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">That being said, I still think
<b>tlhoQ</b> a better choice.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">--Voragh<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>mayqel qunenoS<br>
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</span><div class="quoted-text">On Oct 16, 2017 17:09, "<span style="color:#1f497d">Voragh</span>" wrote:<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></div></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">mayqel qunenoS:<br>
>> I just noticed that {ngogh} is given as "block, lump, brick".</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">>> So, because of its "lump" meaning, perhaps it's a good choice in order</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">>> to express "tumor". </span><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Not unless the tumor resembles a rectangular solid, which seems to be the general shape:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> (Lieven < MO,  9th qepHom'a', 12/2010):  A
<b>ngogh</b> is a block or lump or brick. He said he's seen humans eating <b>yuch ngoghmey</b> and found that strange.</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">(KGT 93):  A particularly popular dish,<b> tlhombuS</b>, requires that the cook coat a block of
<b>tlhagh</b> [animal fat] with a mixture of <b>ngat</b> (herbed granulated cartilage) and
<b>tIr</b> (grain) and then briefly immerse the block into the already boiling fat, just until the coating hardens.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">nIm wIb ngogh                                 cheese (n)<br>
ngogh mutlhwI'                                bricklayer (n)</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">ngogh tun                               <wbr>           pillow (n)</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">tIr ngogh                                            bread [i.e. a loaf?] (n)</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Voragh<br>
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons</div></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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