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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/24/2020 9:54 AM, Will Martin
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:5875F607-1D8D-406C-B4EB-891899BC43AF@mac.com">We could
have come up with {ghojmoH} without Okrand giving it to us, and we
could justify using it in our speech and writing to mean “teach",
but then he could have later given us a different verb for “teach”
that wasn’t derived from {ghoj}. By giving us an explicit
{ghojmoH} to mean “teach”, he was informing us that we could
freely use {ghojmoH} without waiting for some other verb.</blockquote>
<p>Well, no. He didn't include <b>ghojmoH</b> to give us permission
to use it. He included it because he knew that people looking up
words on the English–Klingon side might look for a word like <i>teach,</i>
and if he only included root Klingon words they wouldn't find it.
As a convenience to the reader, he added English words that didn't
have root Klingon equivalents and gave their constructions in
Klingon.</p>
<p>This has the added side-effect of giving us canonical glosses of
productive Klingon suffix use, but "canon" wasn't a thought in
Okrand's mind when he wrote the dictionary.<br>
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