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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/25/2019 9:20 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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cite="mid:kank518p86dthtcpp4l1qv9g.1572009605794@email.android.com">
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">If we accept
it, then who will be the one deciding, "when okrand is speaking
casually, and when he's officially creating canon" ?</p>
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<p>Precisely.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:kank518p86dthtcpp4l1qv9g.1572009605794@email.android.com">Perhaps,
the need never appeared again for okrand to use {qabpaq}. So, how
could someone dismiss it, as being "a one-time temporary word
only" ?
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<p>A canonical word need not be a dictionary word. Klingons
occasionally coin one-use words and throw them away; this practice
itself is canonical. So if we accept <b>qabpaq</b> as canonical,
there's still no evidence one way or the other whether this is a
canonical throwaway term or a canonical "the way Klingons refer to
Facebook" term.</p>
<p>Given that in our fictional Klingon world Klingons are unlikely
to know or care much about Facebook — what century is Maltz living
in, anyway? — what Klingon is putting the name <b>qabpaq</b> in a
dictionary? I think that, unless Facebook itself accepts a Klingon
translation of its name, any translated name will be an informal
one.<br>
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<p>The treatment of proper nouns in word lists has always been
tricky. TKD itself is inconsistent. The dictionary proper lists
planet names but not personal names. The KLI's word list has
country names and ship names but not corporate names.</p>
<p>It's not really a question of what's canonical; it's a question
of what needs to go in a dictionary. Is the KLI's word list a list
of canonical utterances or a list of dictionary words?<br>
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