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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] EuroTalk - New info - Phrases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Mon Oct 31 11:24:24 2011
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:23:59 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <4EAEBCA9.1000504@web.de>
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On 10/31/2011 11:20 AM, Lieven Litaer wrote:
>
> jIghItlh:
>>> nuqDaq 'oH beylI''e'?
>>>
>>> this obvious pun doesn't need a translation :-)
>
> Am 31.10.2011 16:09, schrieb Philip Newton:
>> It's not obvious to me what the pun is....
>
> Hm... no that I'm looking at it, I'm not sure you would see the pun, or
> if it is intended by MO. I don't know if there is an english word like
> that, because when I saw it, I immediately thought of the dutch word
> "balie", which is a counter/desk in a bank.
>
> But if this not the case in english, I doubt it is intended to be a pun.
> It would have been so nice... :-(
Oh, it's a pun all right, but not so obscure. It's steeped in current
events.
"Bailout."
Why lI' instead of aw'? beylaw' was probably too obvious.
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