<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 20:50, Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">To get the discussion started...<br>
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(HQ 12.2:7-8): For the end of a longish enclosed space that one is typically inside of or experiences from the inside, such as a corridor, tunnel, or conduit (say, a Jeffries tube or a branch of the sewers of Paris), a different word is used: {qa'rI'}. This is the only word; it's used for both (or all) ends. The open entryway leading into such a space is called a {Din}. If there's a door there, it's referred to by the usual word for door, {lojmIt}.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>The KLI New Klingon Words list says this:<div>{DIn} n. Open entryway (to corridor, tunnel, conduit, Jeffries tube, branch of sewer) [This is the open entryway of any enclosed space longer than wide in which people might find themselves. If there is a door that closes, this is not a {DIn}. It is merely a {lojmIt}.]<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>This seems to be an interpretation which has added something to the original. In the original, it just says "a door", not "a door that closes".</div><div><br></div><div>What if the door is stuck open? Has the entryway effectively become a {DIn} in that case, or is it still a {lojmIt} (albeit a {lojmIt DIy}).</div><div><br></div><div>(Also, if it's stuck closed, it is a {qa'rI'}? If only we had a {lojmIt tI'wI' nuv} around here...)</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div></div>