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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I agree. {nugh tlhegh} is an odd phrase for a writer - hired specifically to convert someone else’s script for a computer game to novel form - to have added
on their own, especially without explanation. The sentence is perfectly understandable without it. Which is why it was worth mentioning when nIqolay Q asked for other known examples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">--Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Felix Malmenbeck<br>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">That being said, he was a creative consultant on the game and contributed a lot (if not all) of the tlhIngan Hol used therein; at least the introductory monologue and everything
available in the language lab. So, there is a high probability that he came up with the term {nugh tlhegh}; definitely worth asking him about.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">I wonder if the {nugh tlhegh} might refer to one's lineage, as during the Rite of Ascension the character takes his place in a line of warriors.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> SuStel <</span><a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">sustel@trimboli.name</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> On 1/9/2018 11:32 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#212121">There is another problematic example of
<b>tlhegh</b> known: <b>nugh tlhegh</b> (lit. "society rope") from the KCD novelization (was it used in KCD itself?):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#212121"> "Pok has yet to complete the Second Rite of Ascension. In the eyes of the<br>
<b>nugh tlhegh</b> he is still a boy." <br>
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</span>This seems to mean received opinion or acceptable behavior. (Compare the phrase "party line" in English.) Someone once suggested that this actually refers to the line of six
<i>painstik</i>-wielding warriors who form the gauntlet (<i>i.e.</i> the "River of Pain") a young Klingon must pass through during his/her
<b>nentay</b> ceremony.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">This line does appear in the game:
</span><a href="https://youtu.be/mcTGRaPTNOQ?t=29m9s"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://youtu.be/mcTGRaPTNOQ?t=29m9s</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> The actor pronounces it something like
<i>noog kleH.</i> It does not occur in the Language Lab, which is the canonical part of KCD.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">The script of the game was not written or vetted by Okrand, and is not Okrandian canon (or even officially
<i>Star Trek</i> canon, for that matter).</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
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<pre><span style="color:#212121">-- <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:#212121">SuStel<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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