tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 17 07:32:41 1994
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Re: KLBC: Re: tachDaq 'el wa' tlhIngan
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>Date: Sun, 16 Oct 94 22:29:35 EDT
>According to Terry Donnelly:
>> By the way, is there a word for "joke"?
>I think ~mark has used {lut tlhaQ}, and if memory serves me,
>Nick has used {tlhaQwI'}, though I would personally tend to
>think of that as a comedian as much as a joke. I favor ~mark's,
>just because it is a little less ambiguous.
I can't really take credit for it: Okrand himself used "lut tlhaQ" for
"funny story" in PK. While he didn't translate it as "joke", it was
certainly used in a similar place in a sentence ("Do you know any funny
stories, Terran?")
>> - Terry
>charghwI'
~mark