<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 23:13, M Roney <<a href="mailto:nahqun@gmail.com">nahqun@gmail.com</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"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">This is what I have in my notes:</div><div dir="auto">>></div><div dir="auto">‘e۰lI’۰jaH n. unexpected guest qep’a’ wa’maH wej DIch; 2006</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">‘el۰‘I’ ۰jaH n. uninvited guest qep’a’ wa’maH loS DIch; July 2007 </div><div dir="auto">>></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's weird that you misattribute the (correct) {'elI'jaH} spelling to 2006 and the (incorrect) *{'el'I'jaH} spelling to 2007, since apparently the misspelling was the result of miscopying in 2006, which was corrected in 2007. See below.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">I made those notes in 2006 and 2007 respectively.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I did some digging and this is what seems to have happened. The word was revealed to a small group in 2006 but not widely publicised. It was first mentioned on the mailing list in this post from 2007 right after that year's {qep'a'}, with the misspelling *{'el'I'jaH}, when 'ISqu' showed Qov her notebook containing information from the *previous* year (i.e., 2006). Note that Qov says {'oH*law'*} to indicate she wasn't sure about her recollection:</div><div><a href="http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2007/August/msg00021.html">http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2007/August/msg00021.html</a><br></div><div><paqDaq latlh mu' ghaj Okrand 'e' vIlegh. 'el'I'jaH 'oHlaw'. 'ej "uninvited guest" 'oS. mu'vetlh maqbejbe'mo' chaq mu'na' bIHbe'.></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"> The word was passed along to the list in two different forms and with two different definitions. </div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>It was immediately corrected by 'ISqu' at the conclusion of that thread:<div><a href="http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2007/August/msg00171.html">http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2007/August/msg00171.html</a><br clear="all"><div><wa' ben, qep'a' wejmaHDIch nIQ Qav wISoptaHvIS paqHomwIjDaq mu'<<'elI'jaH>> ghItlh Okrand. "unexpected visitor" 'oS mu'vam. paqHomwIjDaq tlhIngan mu' bIngDaq DI'vI' Hol mu'mey "unexpected visitor" ghItlh 'angghal... The word Okrand wrote in my notebook during last year's qep'a' was spelled <<'elI'jaH>>. The English translation, written by Lawrence below the Klingon word, was "unexpected visitor".></div><div><br>Note that she wrote {wa' ben}, referring to 2006. So by "last year" she did, indeed, mean the previous year's {qep'a'} in 2006, not the one which had just concluded in 2007. Also, since Qov's source of information is 'ISqu''s notebook, and the notebook says "unexpected visitor" while Qov passed it along as "uninvited guest" based on her memory, that's strong evidence that the original definition was indeed "unexpected visitor" and that "uninvited guest" and "unexpected guest" were errors of transmission.</div><div><br></div><div>Summary:</div><div>* The word was revealed in 2006.</div><div>* The correct spelling is {'elI'jaH}.</div><div>* The correct definition is "unexpected visitor".</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>