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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tar

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Mon Mar 13 17:20:31 2017

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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 22:20:28 +0100
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Am 13.03.2017 um 16:19 schrieb Steven Boozer:
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, March 13, 2017
>>
>> Klingon word: tar
>> Part of speech: noun
>> Definition: poison
>> Source: TKD
[...]
> PUN: rat (poison) backwards?

I believe to remember having heard that Okrand was thinking about 
smoking people. Cigarette packages usually have a phrase "one cigarette 
contains x gram of tar."


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