<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’m with SuStel on this one.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As convenient as it would be to have a word for toenail, and as logical as this parallel-to-another-word-we-have as this may be, if it’s not in the lexicon, it’s not in the lexicon. We can ask Okrand/Maltz for it, but we can’t just take it for ourselves.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We could also use it, marking it perhaps with an asterisk, just to remind ourselves that it’s not a Klingon word, even if we really, REALLY need the word “toenail” in our precious tlhIngan communications, and we humans who are speaking Klingon can understand, even if we are using a local-community-created neologism, extending the vocabulary beyond the Emperor’s dialect. Perhaps in conversation, we might raise our hands and make air quotes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Basically, this isn’t English. In Klingon, unlike English, we can’t glom new smorphs whenever we want and expect everyone to grock our synosinclastic symnabulisms.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 2, 2021, at 10:25 AM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/1/2021 11:05 AM, Steven Boozer
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, January 30, 2021
Klingon word: yaDpach
Part of speech: noun
Definition: toenail
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Has this one been confirmed? I thought it was just a suggested form used on the mailing list, modelled on {nItlhpach} "fingernail".</pre>
</blockquote><p class="">Annoyingly, boQwI' says, "This word does not seem to have
appeared in canon, but it is obvious by analogy with <b class="">nItlhpach...</b>"</p><p class="">Nuh-uh. That's not how it works. If its origin is just someone
who isn't Okrand making it up, this word has no business being
here.<br class="">
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