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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Mar 14 09:45:33 2017
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:45:29 +0000
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> >> Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, March 13, 2017
> >>
> >> Klingon word: tar
> >> Part of speech: noun
> >> Definition: poison
Voragh:
>> PUN: rat (poison) backwards?
Lieven:
> 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."
Your version makes more sense. But knowing Okrand history with puns, it's entirely possible he meant BOTH. <g>
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Voragh
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