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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Don't they have jay' arrows ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Wed Jul 19 10:31:04 2017

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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:30:59 +0200
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On 19 July 2017 at 16:26, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't understand why there isn't a klingon word for "arrow".
>
> How is it possible, that the almighty warrior race never invented arrows or
> apparently never came to know them ?

It's obvious that a so-called "arrow" is just a {-Hom}ed version of a
"spear". Klingon has vocabulary dealing with spears and spear-throwing
devices.

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