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RE: mu'mey chu': jul
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Badgley)
Fri Sep 9 13:13:53 2011
From: "Josh Badgley " <joshbadgley@hotmail.com>
To: "sboozer@uchicago.edu " <sboozer@uchicago.edu>, " tlhingan-hol@kli.org "
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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 17:07:41 +0000
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You are correct about the Hindi...I have not studied it as much as Sanskrit or Pali, but I had a friend from Mumbai who taught me enough slang...
Indic languages have wonderful intensifiers like that...in Pali, there's a word "je" which means "slave woman" or "woman of inferior status" or any other derogatory phrase you could insert. Its used in one passage in the Canon "he je" or "hey you worthless, lowclass etc..." Maybe that's where Hindi "jai" came from. Sorry I know this is a Klingon list...
-qomeQ
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Date: Friday, September 09, 2011 11:53:17 am
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
Subject: RE: mu'mey chu': jul
Voragh:
>> Anyone know of any others?
Robyn Stewart (Qov):
> I strongly suspect that jay', meyrI', and 'eDjen refer to individuals
> about whom Marc has opinions.
{jay'} could also be linguistic humor. I'm told that in Hindi, *jai* is used as an intensifier for the whole sentence; it is also always the last word.
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
