tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 01 04:55:35 1995
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Re: what is {bom}?
- From: [email protected] (David Barron)
- Subject: Re: what is {bom}?
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 05:55:30 -0700
At 07:41 AM 2/1/95 -0500, Alan Anderson wrote:
>I don't see {bom} in TKD, so either there's a third edition I've not seen
>or it's one of those words from the audiotapes that many of us will never
>see in canon. From context, I assume:
> {bom} = (n) song, poem, something like that
> {bom} = (v) sing, chant, something like that
Yes indeed, bom means Song or chant.
This is from HolQeD. Marc Okrand submitted new vocabulary
Yet another good reson to subscribe.
>
>Whatever {bom} means, you have a fine one, David.
qatlho'
>
>I'd like to point out that by using a 7-syllable meter and paired rhyming,
>you've made your {bom} compatible with the "universal" marching cadence.
>You know, the one where someone calls out a line like "TO the LEFT and TO the
>RIGHT," and everyone echoes it, and the next line is "WE will MARCH all DAY
>and NIGHT" with another echo, with an occasional "Sound off (one two),
>Sound off (three four), one two three four one two [pause] three-four!"
>
Excellent point and one I hadnt thought of. Originally I wnated this to
be tach bom. You know, a bunch of aile filled Klingons singing loud and
butting heads.
>-- ghunchu'wI'
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