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From: ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Pawns and Symbols - a review
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Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 19:56:55 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 19:56:55 1985
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> 
> >>    Continuity nitpickers may want to check certain elements of the novel
> >> against John M. Ford's THE FINAL REFLECTION. The latter novel seems, for
> >> the most part, to be the definitive work on Klingon culture.
> >> 
> > Not totally definitive.  The novel doesn't follow all points.  Note:
> >
> >  Kang calls Mara his WIFE, not consort.
> 
> consort  1. a husband or wife, esp. of a reining monarch.
> 	-the Random House Dictionary.
> 
> 			{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan
Consort has several definitions.  They are about as close to
wife as thief is to robber.  There is a subtle difference.  Consort
implies someone in union. Wife implies the marriage ceremony. Note,
the definition of consort in relation to European royalty implies
that the consort is of inferior social position.

If the terms are identical, why did Ford use the word consort
in the first place?