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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mung

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jaSwa')
Fri Nov 9 19:01:24 2012

Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:01:03 -0600
From: jaSwa' <DarksideTheMidnightShadow@yahoo.com>
To: Gaerfindel <gaerfindel@hotmail.com>
Cc: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
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And I likewise erred: "nargh" means "appear" rather than the opposite (a word meaning "disappear" and one meaning "escape" that are spelled and pronounced the same are possibly similar enough to just be the same word rather than homonyms).

jaSwa'

Hochlogh bechjaj Hoch jaghpu'wI'

Gaerfindel <gaerfindel@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On 11/9/2012 2:02 PM, jaSwa' wrote:
>> I noticed you keep using "bong" to mean "sing." I thought the word for "sing" is "bom," and "bong" is an adverbial. Does "bong" also mean "sing?" Sometimes the synonyms and homophones get kind of weird, like "nargh" for both "disappear" and "escape."
>HIvqa veqlargh!  No, you're correct.  {*bong*} is a typo.
>
>~quljIb
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