<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 13:07, Jeremy Silver <<a href="mailto:jp.silver@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">jp.silver@tiscali.co.uk</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">On Tuesday, 23 July 2019 11:44:07 BST mayqel qunen'oS wrote:<br>
> I was wondering this for {'nger}. Is this in-keeping with the known klingon<br>
> phonology ?<br>
<br>
Typo. Probably the qaghwI' that fell off {'achler}, so we are told. It's just <br>
a confirmation for the existing word {nger} from TKD.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>What's the confirmation? That the word {nger} is both the colloquial word for "theory" and *also* used in science for a scientific theory? Or that it's *only* the scientific word for theory?</div><div><br></div><div>btw the only info I had on {nger} previously was this message from Okrand (posted to the KLI mailing list, Apr. 30, 2015):</div><div><br></div><div>--- begin quote ---</div><div>The Big Bang -- meaning the start of the universe -- is, as you<br>once hypothesized, {qa'vam}, the word used by Klingons for the Genesis<br>device. {qa'vam} is perhaps best defined as "origin of everything" or<br>"start of it all" or the like. Maltz said you could say {qa'vam nger}<br>"Big Bang Theory," but he thought that was weird -- the start of it<br>all isn't a theory, he said -- it's just the start of it all. If one<br>thinks the start of it all was a big explosion and that's a theory,<br>then {qa'vam nger} could mean "the theory of how everything began,"<br>but the Klingon phrase doesn't contain the notion of explosion. For<br>the TV Show -- whether to translate it or use the English -- that's up<br>to you.<br>--- end quote ---<br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-1191347752452615782gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>