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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/20/2019 3:01 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
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cite="mid:36bdee50-d6da-b6de-5178-e4d37547bf47@gmx.de">For those
who like to read the original wording, I have uploaded the
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pages from the qepHom booklet into the wiki:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/NewWordsQepHom2019">http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/NewWordsQepHom2019</a>
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<p>Does nobody understand the importance of searchable text?</p>
<p>Not yet mentioned on this list is the information on page 12 that
<b>-ngan</b> is generally translated as<i> people of,</i> but that
it's more generally used to indicate a group of beings, not
necessarily beings from a particular place.</p>
<p>Thus we have the answer to the old dilemma of whether a Klingon
living on Earth could be called a <b>tera'ngan:</b> the answer is
generally no, because <b>tera'ngan</b> is generally understood to
refer to humans, but someone wanting to split hairs could
legitimately claim that any inhabitant of Earth could be called a
<b>tera'ngan.</b> Said person should be prepared to fend off an
attack of eye-rolling.<br>
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<p>Also not yet mentioned is that Okrand declined to explain the
word <b>roSHa'moH</b><i> paralyze.</i> The word remains
nigh-unusable because we don't know for sure how to inflect it.<br>
<i></i></p>
<p>Okrand resists a strict classification of words as nouns and
verbs. One might consider <b>ret</b> to be two separate words, a
noun and a verb, or one might consider it to be a single word that
can be used as a noun or as a verb. He doesn't take a stand on a
"correct" interpretation. This hearkens back to <i>The Klingon
Dictionary</i>'s introduction of <b>-ghach,</b> where it is
said that "it is not known if all verbs can be used as nouns."</p>
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