[84275] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: namtun (noun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Mar 24 11:51:53 2008
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:36:30 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, March 24, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: namtun
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: beginning of a song
Never used in canon.
>Additional Notes:
>HolQeD 12:2, p. 7, "Maltz's Reward: Part I." To begin to sing a song is
>to {lIH} (literally, "introduce") the song, and that portion of the song
>that comes at the beginning -- a portion that is often so familiar that
>listeners know what song it is after hearing just that short portion -- is
>the {namtun}.
For the benefit of the non-Americans on the list, this is a pun derived
from the U.S. television show "Name That Tune". The object of the game was
to identify a piece of music - either popular or classical - from the first
few notes played on a piano. The winner was the person who could do it
with the fewest notes.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
