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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] paSlogh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Aug 16 12:30:14 2017
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:30:09 +0000
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-----Original Message-----
From: SuStel
On 8/16/2017 10:26 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
> The klingon word for "socks" is {paSlogh}. Is this word to be treated
> as being grammatically singular, and is it possible to say "one sock"
> in klingon ? As far as I know, it is unknown if a singular form exists.
maSovbe'.
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"Hosiery" may have been a better translation. See, for example, The Big Bang Theory, "The Lunar Excitation":
SHELDON: ... I am being blackmailed with a hidden dirty sock.
AMY: If that was slang, I'm unfamiliar with it. If it was literal,
I share your aversion to soiled hosiery.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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