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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: boqrat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lojmIt tI'wI' nuv)
Thu Jun 25 09:54:02 2015
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:11:55 -0400
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If this were transliterated as bo-krat, it probably would have been {boQat} instead of {boqrat}, given examples like {Qo'noS} for "Kronos". I'd vote for "bok-rat". Besides, it sounds gross, which is obviously the effect Paramount was after.
They like making fun of our food.
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> On Jun 24, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Lieven <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Am 24.06.2015 um 15:25 schrieb Steven Boozer:
>>> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 23, 2015
>>>
>>> Klingon word: boqrat
>>> Part of speech: noun
>>> Definition: type of animal, *bokrat*
>
> Just a thought, which nobody could answer so far:
> I have always wondered if this is a simple animal name, i.e. a "bo-krat", or if this is some kind of a "rat", hence a "bok-rat". I guess nobody can answer this, except for the author of the script who made this up. :-(
>
> It doens't matter anyway, unless you try to translate this into a different language than english.
>
>
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