[84710] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Possible pun (was Re: SoSwI' SoH'a')?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue May 20 14:35:10 2008
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 13:33:25 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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Voragh:
> > Yet another option would be {bo'Degh nen} "the mature/grown-up/adult bird"
> > or {bo'Degh qan} "the old bird" vs. {bo'Degh Qup} "the young bird". But
> > these don't feel quite right either.
Thorwald Peeters:
>I still have to start my own database of puns and other fun things in
>tlhIngan Hol, but did [Qup] make it as one already? Although not all young
>beings crawl, I can't shake the thought of "kruipen" in Dutch when I see
>[Qup]. Maybe that is because "krūp'n" is the verb in my dialect...
I don't have a pun noted for {Qup} "be young", but the noun {qup} "elder"
is {puq} "child" spelled backwards.
{Qup} also isn't listed in the "Puns in the Vocabulary of tlhIngan Hol" page at
<http://www.kli.org/wiki/index.php?Puns%20in%20the%20Vocabulary%20of%20tlhIngan%20Hol>www.kli.org/wiki/index.php?Puns%20in%20the%20Vocabulary%20of%20tlhIngan%20Hol
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
