On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 5:49 PM Daniel Dadap <daniel@dadap.net> wrote:

What do you all think about {'oH} versus {ghaH}? Has Maltz ever said anything to point us more strongly towards one interpretation or the other, with regards to whether {ghaH} might apply to beings incapable of language?

On the old MSN expert forum, Marc Okrand said:

the question {yIH nuq?} "What is a tribble?" is exactly parallel to the statement {yIH 'oH} "It is a tribble"

[See http://klingonska.org/canon/1996-12-12b-news.txt for the full text of his message.]

A tribble is an animate being. It gets the pronouns {'oH} and {nuq}, not {ghaH} and {'Iv}.

-- ghunchu'wI'