[87110] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: pu'jIn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Nov 25 09:43:01 2009
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:38:04 -0600
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Fiat Knox:
>It's another Okrand pun, and one I'd be familiar with as a Brit.
>Pugin (and Charles Barry) built the Houses of Parliament.
Oh, that's nice. However, taD reported that at the 2007 qep'a Okrand said "{pu'jIn} is a pun/joke, but it was a personal reference (presumably similar to {jIl} or {pe'vIl}), so it wouldn't be something we'd get" (taD, 8/02/07). I wonder if that was what he meant?
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