tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 07 13:11:10 1997
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Re: Word origin speculation
- From: [email protected] (JEFF ZEITLIN)
- Subject: Re: Word origin speculation
- Date: Fri, 07 Feb 97 16:08:00 -0500
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jatlh Kavok...
T::>On Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:41:36 -0800,
::>"David Trimboli" <[email protected]> wrote about Word origin speculation:
::>> I was wondering if anyone knows what kind of car Marc Okrand was driving
::>> around, oh, say, 1983? Was is a broken down Saab? Or perhaps someone he
::>knew
::>> had one? Maybe his neighbor "Jill"?
::>>
::>> Perhaps Okrand had a reason to make the word {Sab} mean "decline,
::>> deteriorate."
::>>
::>> --
::>> SuStel
::>> Beginners' Grammarian
::>> Stardate 97098.4
::>>
::>Perhaps he got this word from the Terran word 'shabby'. =)
This is a nice possibility - for some reason, I went directly
to the French, "deshabille" (might be missing a couple of
accents, there). Same basic thought, though...
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