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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] new words [Re: Festival of the Spoken Nerd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Wed May 6 05:45:10 2015
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Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 11:44:46 +0200
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
On 5 May 2015 at 07:57, PICHLMANN Christoph
<Christoph.PICHLMANN@agrana.com> wrote:
>>I think I see no pun in {ven}.
> My first thought upon reading the description was "this reads more like a fan(atic) than a nerd". If you read the "v" as an "f" it sounds like "fan".
As has been mentioned elsewhere, {qatru'} is a reference to Dr. Seuss:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd
Now what about {ngom}?
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