<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 16:48, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
<p>So there <i>is</i> overlap between serpents and worms. I believe
Okrand has even commented on this word, saying that originally he
meant <b>ghargh</b> to mean anything like a serpent or a worm,
just like the Old English word, but that when writers for <i>Star
Trek: The Next Generation</i> writing the episode "A Matter of
Honor" wanted a word for their newly invented plate of worms, they
found <b>ghargh,</b> coached the actors to mispronounce it as <i>gakh,</i>
and failed to notice the comma in the gloss, coming up with the
new thing called <i>serpent worms.</i> Okrand later retrofit this
mistake as <b>qagh,</b> accounting for both the mispronunciation
and the wrong meaning. I don't have a citation for this
information.</p></div>
</blockquote></div>Does anyone have a citation for this story? I've also heard it, and it's noted at the KlingonWiki page for {qagh} without a source. It just says that Okrand told this story "During an interview...". Which interview? Is there a recording or a transcript? It would be nice to confirm (or refute) this story as legitimate.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>