<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 18:01, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</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">
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<div>On 9/20/2019 11:50 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
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(By the way, it's very likely that Star Trek authors picked {qIv}
"knee"
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and made it longer by one syllable.)
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<p>Then why didn't they just say <i>knee?</i> I think the Star Trek
writers were playing the same game that Okrand does: inventing a
Klingon organ and not telling us what it is.</p></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>It's explicitly stated in The Star Trek Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., p. 393, that this was the word for knee. Out-of-universe, the writers or director probably didn't like the way {qIv} sounded and added an extra syllable. In-universe, perhaps this is a dialectical word in Kor's dialect (he doesn't seem to quite speak what we know as standard Klingon), or perhaps there is some technical difference between {qIv} and *{qIvon}.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>