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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: taSman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Apr 9 10:48:24 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 14:48:13 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 09, 2014
>
> Klingon word: taSman
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: ditch
> Source: email to Agnieszka, 15 january 2012
AFAIK never used in canon.
PUN:
"the Tasman Sea, which separates Australia and New Zealand. Both Kiwis and us Aussies often refer to the other country as being 'across the ditch'." (QeS, 1/26/2012)
Okrand also revealed two new qualities in the same post to Agnieszka which may be relevant:
jaQ be deep (v)
wan be straight (v)
Similar words:
Qargh fissure (n)
ngech valley (n)
'och tunnel (n)
DIS cave (n)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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