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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Sun Oct 30 05:52:26 2011
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: Qov <robyn@flyingstart.ca>, "tlhIngan-Hol@KLI.org" <tlhIngan-Hol@KLI.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:51:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20111029150429.052d9410@flyingstart.ca>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
ghItlhta' Qov,
> I hadn't even noticed that, but yeah, the Klingons would totally hear
> it as a -ya' even if it were clearly more -ye' like to you. You're
> right up there with DenIbya'.
...which I suppose would make ME a slime devil, albeit one HANDSOME slime devil, mind you ;)
ghItlhta' Quvar,
> I do speak turkish a little, and the turk name for the country sounds
> more like *turqIye'*.
Yet another -ya'; I count seven in total among these country names.
==Off-topic==
ghItlhta' Qov,
> I read right by this, trying to remember what exactly Denmark meant,
> thinking, "Doesn't it just mean land of the Danes?" before I parsed
> your words and realized where you were going. Everyone despises their
> neighbours, but why is it Denmark and not Norway or Finland for you guys?
Mainly by convention; they're our arvfiende (or "inherited enemy"). We killed them, they killed us; it's all you could do to pass the time back in the Middle Ages.
This comic explains it all quite succinctly: http://satwcomic.com/nordic-brothers
Naturally, though, nowadays it's mostly for fun; we tease them, they tease us :)
We have a similar thing going on with Norway, although we just accuse each other of being stupid, rather than evil ;)
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