On 9/24/2020 9:54 AM, Will Martin wrote:
We could have come up with {ghojmoH} without Okrand giving it to us, and we could justify using it in our speech and writing to mean “teach", but then he could have later given us a different verb for “teach” that wasn’t derived from {ghoj}. By giving us an explicit {ghojmoH} to mean “teach”, he was informing us that we could freely use {ghojmoH} without waiting for some other verb.
Well, no. He didn't include *ghojmoH* to give us permission to use it. He included it because he knew that people looking up words on the English–Klingon side might look for a word like /teach,/ and if he only included root Klingon words they wouldn't find it. As a convenience to the reader, he added English words that didn't have root Klingon equivalents and gave their constructions in Klingon. This has the added side-effect of giving us canonical glosses of productive Klingon suffix use, but "canon" wasn't a thought in Okrand's mind when he wrote the dictionary. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name