On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 08:33, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 17:03, nIqolay Q <niqolay0@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:30 AM De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
* What does *{roSqa'} mean in {roSqa'QeD}, if anything?
I've heard that an old archeology trick for telling bone from stone is to lick it, since fossil bone is more porous and will stick to your wet tongue a bit. Klingon archeologists are obviously more rigorous when they apply this test, and require licking it again (*roSqa'*) to get two data points.
The out-of-universe origin might be a reference to Marton Roska, a pioneer of scientific archeology: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roska_Márton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Șanțul_Mare
But maybe that's too obscure? I was also thinking something to do with the Rosetta stone, which connects archaeology to linguistics (which might appeal to Okrand given his background), but can't work out what the {qa'} would mean in that case. -- De'vID