Does anyone else on the mailing list have any reservation about using {ghargh} to mean "serpent"? On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 at 11:56, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
De'vID:
AFAIK, {ghargh} has never been used to mean "serpent" in canon, either. Does that mean you'll never use it that way even if you needed a word for "serpent", until it's used that way in canon?
This is something which has troubled me in the past; I've thought of writing about it in this list, but eventually more important questions came up, so I forgot.
What I've decided to do, is in case I'm writing something important, I'd say something like {ghargh vIleghpu'; wam rur}.
Why? What reason is there to believe that the "serpent" in the definition of {ghargh} means anything other than that a serpent would be referred to generically as a {ghargh} in Klingon? -- De'vID