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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tIngDagh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Fri Mar 30 11:31:00 2012
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:29:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
--- On Fri, 3/30/12, De'vID jonpIn <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
Philip Newton:
> Is there a pun in {tIngDagh}?
> {leSpal} sounds like a Gibson "Les Paul" electric guitar, but I don't
> know what a {tIngDagh} could be.
I don't know about {tIngDagh}, but maybe {HurDagh} is a reference to the "hurdy gurdy"? Although that's a very specific musical instrument, and not a word for a type of instrument.
Voragh:
> Hmm, looking at it... [something] + DOG perhaps?
I don't know if this is relevant, but the bridge on such an instrument is called its "chien" (i.e., dog in French).
{tIng} could mean (the area to the) southwest (which is somewhat like {Hur} which means outside). Or, it could be the sound a string makes. Or it (and the word) might be completely meaningless. :-)
The {tIngDagh} is a large stringed instrument which is rarely heard except in conjunction with the performance of an opera. What would this be? A violin? A cello? A harp?
--
maybe just "big dog"? Kind of a sloppy pun in Klingon ({tIng} for {tIn}) and English ({Dagh} for 'dog'), but you never know.
(I lost track of who said what above, so sorry if I mis-attributed.)
-- ter'eS
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