On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 13:07, Jeremy Silver <jp.silver@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 July 2019 11:44:07 BST mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
I was wondering this for {'nger}. Is this in-keeping with the known klingon phonology ?
Typo. Probably the qaghwI' that fell off {'achler}, so we are told. It's just a confirmation for the existing word {nger} from TKD.
What's the confirmation? That the word {nger} is both the colloquial word for "theory" and *also* used in science for a scientific theory? Or that it's *only* the scientific word for theory? btw the only info I had on {nger} previously was this message from Okrand (posted to the KLI mailing list, Apr. 30, 2015): --- begin quote --- The Big Bang -- meaning the start of the universe -- is, as you once hypothesized, {qa'vam}, the word used by Klingons for the Genesis device. {qa'vam} is perhaps best defined as "origin of everything" or "start of it all" or the like. Maltz said you could say {qa'vam nger} "Big Bang Theory," but he thought that was weird -- the start of it all isn't a theory, he said -- it's just the start of it all. If one thinks the start of it all was a big explosion and that's a theory, then {qa'vam nger} could mean "the theory of how everything began," but the Klingon phrase doesn't contain the notion of explosion. For the TV Show -- whether to translate it or use the English -- that's up to you. --- end quote --- -- De'vID