ghItlhpu' De'vID, jatlh:
If no one has anything to add, or suggestions about revising the {petaQ} footnote or opinions about what, if anything, should be done about the apparent slang use of {QaD}, I'm going to send the list to the publisher tomorrow.
It says in the introduction explicitly (and in the part Marc did write, IIRC, though someone with the paq'batlh to hand should check me on that) that - apart from the no' Hol in the intro, of course - the Klingon rendition was done using contemporary language. As such, I have no problem leaving the slang use of QaD as it is. As for the petaQ footnote, any revision (if it's not outright deleted) should note that it's at most a tentative hypothesis proposed by the editor, not the translator. (On a purely selfish note: would it be out of place for me to ask you to include that my name be updated in the acknowledgments in Marc's intro? Naturally I hadn't come out when paq'batlh was published, but it'd be nice to be able to get that revised if other revisions are going to be made.) QeS 'utlh