<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 22:51, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</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">
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<div>On 4/13/2021 4:41 PM, Will Martin
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<div>Okay, so a new question occurred to me… Maybe we’ve
been asking the wrong question.</div>
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<div>Do we have any sex-gendered nouns besides mother,
father, and other blood relatives or spouses? Even then, Okrand
slid in some odd ones, like {tey’}, which basically means “a
not-gender-specific child of a same-gender sibling of one of
your parents”.</div>
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<div>If there are no non-blood-relative-or-spouse
sex-gender-specific nouns, then the definitions are likely
generally mail as a simple style point in Okrand’s writing, like
saying, “A person must trust his instincts,” instead of “her
instincts” or “his or her instincts” or “their instincts”. It’s
just the way he writes them, by default.</div>
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<p>We have <b>ghojmoq</b><i> nurse, nanny, governess,</i> which
does not appear to have a male version. Again, it's the English
translation that is gendered; we don't know about the Klingon
word.</p></div>
</blockquote></div>Again, this was a case of necessity. The word was made up by TNG writers for the episode "Sins of the Father". In the script, the word was written "ghojmoK" (sic), and was spoken by Worf to refer to Kahlest: "She was my ghojmoK... my nurse." I'm pretty sure the writers looked up various words related to an adult who takes care of a child in TKD, came up {ghojmoH} "teach, instruct", and either deliberately or by accident changed the ending to make up a new word, which Dr. Okrand then retroactively made official by adding it to the Appendix. It's literally been used once to refer to a specific character who happened to be female, so we can't infer if it can or cannot refer to a male caretaker of a young child.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>