Archive of Okrandian Canon
| Author | Lawrence M. Schoen (?) |
|---|---|
| Date | September 2002 |
| Publisher | Klingon Language Institute, Flourtown, PA, ISSN 1061-2327 |
| Source | HolQeD 11:3, page 9 |
| Summary | Some corrections concerning a -meH/-moH suffix mix-up in the article matlh jup mu’mey published in HolQeD 11:2, p.8-9. |
| Title | Errata |
| Type | article |
Fresh from the Credit-Where-Credit-Is-Due Department, special commendations go out to Will Martin (Keeper of the New Words list on the KLI website) who contacted <{HolQeD}> to inquire regarding a consistent error in last quarter's article "{matlh jup mu'mey}" in which {-meH} was consistently used when {-moH} <cause> should have been. This doubtless caused additional confusion as several of the examples provided used {-meH} <for> quite appropriately.
The main culprit was the sentence
All of these words can be
used with the suffix
{-meH} <cause> [sic] is such
constructions as:
at the bottom of the first column on page 9, and continues the error with the example at the top of the second column.
To ensure this error was indeed an error (and to avoid a correction which might subsequently be discovered to be itself an error) Dr. Okrand was contacted to confirm the {-meH}/{-moH} mix-up.
It's a typo. (Mine --- Maltz
had it right, and in the notes
I scribbled before typing it up
it was right.)
I should be {-moH}.
Some sort of replacement
proverb is in order now, or
some railing against the
{veqlargh}.
It should be noted that Okrand did not actually supply a replacement proverb at that time, nor since. On the other hand, he also refrained from covering the gaff by appealing to any form of historic and hitherto unknown Klingon vowel shift or by smiling enigmatically. All in all, a fair trade.