[83751] in tlhIngan-Hol
Klingon bone-heads (as Re: "to-be" + <<-bogh>>)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Dec 26 17:03:21 2007
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:01:42 -0600
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <D3F91C40-08A9-417C-BDFC-6690555693E9@embarqmail.com>
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qa'vaj:
> > Some co-workers get together. One derisively reads a message out loud,
> > unaware that the message sender is in the group. After reading the message
> > he says "whoever sent that message is a real bonehead". The sender could
> > say: "I who am the message sender disagree."
Doq:
>Given the affinity to head-banging we've seen among Klingons, being
>called a bone-head might not be an insult.
Indeed, Glen Proechel used {Hom let} "hard bone" as the title for his 1995
Klingon Hamlet paraphrase _Homlet: Prince of Kronos (The Hard Bone Blues)_!
For more details see http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8853/ (it's listed
near the bottom of the screen).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
