tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 01 19:25:27 1995
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Re: Spoonerism.
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Spoonerism.
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 95 22:25:24 EST
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Joel Anderson" at Feb 1, 95 7:43 pm
According to Joel Anderson:
>
>
> I don't claim this as a "good" spoonerism... but spoonerisms aren't
> always good English, either.
Well, the Spoonerism works, though it doesn't quite mean what
you take it to mean, so maybe if you change the story a
little...
> ---
>
> There was once a very timid, nebbishy little Klingon - kind of a
> Klingon Barclay, if you will. Once, when he was in his cups, he
> nervously told a fellow warrior that when he was nervous he screamed.
> Hard as this was to confess he meant to say:
>
> boH'a' vIjach
>
> But instead stammered out:
>
> joH'a' vIbach
>
> Claiming to have shot the great lord he immediately was hailed as a
> mighty warrior and eventually became the head of a great house. Sort
> of a Klingon "little tailor".
Well, the first sentence means, "I screamed, 'Is he
impatient?'" Perhaps if the story went something like:
Once a timid (etc.) was chased out of town by an angry mob
because he yelled a disrespectful question about one of their
leading citizens, whose honor was beyond question. When a
friend, who met him as he was exiting, asked him what he had
done to fire up the townspeople to such a degree, he
explained...
And, of course, as he attempts to describe how he yelled, "Is
he impatient?", he instead convinced his friend that he had
fired upon a powerful leader. Tales of his boldness spread
widely after that...
charghwI'
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