tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 04 22:52:42 1996
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Re: toughie
In a message dated 96-03-31 12:23:27 EST, ~mark asks for a word for
"fragile":
>I had always heard it as "Indians scattered..." so my first sentence was
>also a sentence fragment. There was no way I could do "fragile, eggshell
>mind" so I did what i could. Oh for a word for "fragile." {lomqa'} is
>used in Hamlet for "ghost"; I can't take credit for it. I decided it was
>marginally better than "qa'". Indeed, it's He'a' with only one stop in the
>middle (and one at the end), since it's "He" (no stop: one of the
>occasional open-syllable words in Klingon) plus "-'a'".
We have seen {rotlhbe'} used once for "fragile."
peHruS