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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: buq
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Aug 22 10:42:02 2012
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:41:54 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAGhEZLX4HS=HeBvooKvGCRqOeOpqM1_xdyuoX+nLFmo0=_ztWQ@mail.gmail.com>
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>>> Klingon word: =A0 buq
>>> Part of speech: noun
>>> Definition: =A0 =A0 bag, sack, pouch, pocket
Voragh:
>> PUN:
>> Pocket Books. =A0Cf. also {paq} "book"!
Christopher Kidder:
> I might suggest that the pun is there as the first part
> of "Bookbag" in the same was that the pun for DaS is the
> first part of "Das Boot"
A double pun is certainly possible, although I'd point out that "Pocket Boo=
ks" (a division of Simon & Schuster) is Okrand's publisher (TKD, TKW, KGT, =
etc.).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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