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<p><span dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> I'm not sure using <strong>
ghIlo'meH</strong> for "glommer" is a more significant sin. (It does help if you explain what a "glommer" is,<br>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> just in case some people are not totally familiar with esoteric Klingon lore.)<br>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The word <em>*</em>ghIlo'meH* (has it been canonized?) has rather an interesting origin. As far as I can tell, it began its journey in the book
<em>Star Trek: </em><em>Forged in Fire</em>, where the author decided to "klingonize" the word "glommer" as *glo'meH* (which violates ordinary syllable structure in exactly the same way that "glommer" does).<br>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Then *glo'meH* was used as an English word in
<em>How to Speak Klingon</em>, which was then properly<em> </em>klingonized as *ghIlo'meH*.<br>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It's essentially come about through a strange game of Telephone / Chinese Whispers ... but then again, I suppose that's true of much of language in general.<br>
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<p>//loghaD<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of nIqolay Q <niqolay0@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 13, 2018 20:21<br>
<b>To:</b> tlhingan-hol@kli.org<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:38 PM, mayqel qunenoS <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">'ej chaq, *extended canon* mu' vIlo'ta'mo', jIHeghDI', Suto'vo'qorvo' mughIm qeylIS..
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<div dir="auto">chaq not yo' qIj vImuvlaH, 'ej wa' meqmo' neH Sanvam vISIQ.. *extended canon* mu' vIlo'ta'mo' !<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>chaq teH... 'a vIHon.</b></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Many of the entries that boQwI' lists as "extended canon" are names of weapons, devices, animals, plants, foods, and so on. In other words, they're basically just transliterations of
the names of specific aspects of Klingon culture which were already invented for a TV episode or novel. Using an unofficial transliteration of a name may cause a small argument, but it's probably not going to keep you out of Sto-Vo-Kor. People used
<b>QISmaS</b> "Christmas" for ages before Maltz signed off on it as an official transliteration of the holiday; I'm not sure using
<b>ghIlo'meH</b> for "glommer" is a more significant sin. (It does help if you explain what a "glommer" is, just in case some people are not totally familiar with esoteric Klingon lore.)<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Extended canon that's
<i>not</i> just a transliteration should probably be avoided until further notice.<br>
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