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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chevwI' tlhoy'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Fri Feb 15 01:32:16 2013
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:26:43 -0800
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <v92e6ux5vlgw9oy8yr5eokwt.1360907691488@email.android.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
It might be referring to the pinboard dividers between office
workers' cubicles?
At 21:54 '?????' 2/14/2013, jaSwa' wrote:
>I guess I don't see it.
>
>jaSwa'
>
>Hochlogh bechjaj Hoch jaghpu'wI'
>
>De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >>> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, February 14, 2013
> >>>
> >>> Klingon word: chevwI' tlhoy'
> >>> Part of speech: noun
> >>> Definition: territorial wall (e.g. Berlin Wall)
> >>
> >> Source: startrek.klingon (12/7/1998):
> >>
> >> The wall around a city is a {yergho}, which is apparently
> derived from {yer} "domain, holdings, territory" plus {gho} "circle."
> >
> >This is an allusion to a Biblical story.
> >
> >> A wall which divides a territory into parts (such as the Berlin
> Wall) is also called a {tlhoy'}, even though neither side of it is
> the interior of a structure. On occasion, for clarity, such a wall
> is termed a {chevwI' tlhoy'} "separator wall") or a {pIn tlhoy'},
> literally "boss wall," presumably dating back to a time when each
> subterritory had a specific person in charge."
> >
> >I just now got the joke behind this.
> >
> >--
> >De'vID
> >
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