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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: bIm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Jun 16 09:59:03 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:58:54 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, June 14, 2014
>
> Klingon word: bIm
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: second tone of nonatonic scale
The nonatonic scale was discussed last week in the {'egh} thread.
PUN:
"re (ray), a drop of golden sun" - a ray is a *beam* of light.
Clever. Okrand didn't go for the obvious {tIH} "ray, energy beam".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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