tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 27 10:13:44 1996
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Re: Klingon writing tool.
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Klingon writing tool.
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 19:07:17 +0200
At 10:52 PM 5/22/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Now using a claw certainly would have been an interesting origin of a writing
>instrument.
Don't forget that thousands of years ago an oxen jaw bone was frequently
used to write of ones conquests on the skin, in the form that we would now
call Tattoo. And the Maori <sp?> used small sharpened bone fragments, to
engrave the faces of true warriors, thus making the pippius claw a most
obvious tool for such existential expressions, but most unlikely for other
such escapades.(c;{{{
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