Thanks. It seems that I copied it from a cross-reference in my notes. I checked again and found one of your old posts: (ghunchu'wI', 7/29/2009): There is no "fanatical" implication in {qolqoS}. That was an initial guess at the meaning by Lawrence, which got the response "Not necessarily fanatical." I have it glossed as "core, essence". In the right context, I think "heart" could be an appropriate translation as well. {qolqoS} is to be distinguished from {SuqSIv} "core (of an apple, planet, sun, etc.) as explained by Lieven's interview in the qepHom 2015 booklet (p.12) : MO: The Klingon word for core (of an apple, for example) is {SuqSIv}. LLL: Is this restricted to fruit, or can this also be used for the core of a planet, or the sun? MO: Yes, it could be the core of anything, the inside of something (but of course not the core of a group, which we know is {qolqoS}). It doesn't have to be a fruit, and it doesn't have be something that you throw away. When referring to the core of an ideology, theory, etc., you can also use {ghanroq} "basis, foundation (underlying support for an idea, argument, or process, depending on context)" [qep'a' 2018]. Cf. Okrand's qepHom 2018 Video Interview: "It's the foundation of a philosophy. The basics on which somebody's thinking is based." -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons ----------------------------------------Original Message---------------------------------------- From: Alan Anderson On Oct 25, 2019, at 11:09 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
qolqoS fanatical core (n)
“Not necessarily fanatical.” — Mark Okrand -- ghunchu'wI'