tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 06 09:03:25 1998
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Re: MO about fork and spoon
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: MO about fork and spoon
- Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:00:53 -0500 (CDT)
: ghunchu'wI' wrote:
: }>From: "Marc Okrand" <[email protected]>
: }>[...]
: }>The Klingon word for "spoon" is {baghneQ}. Even though
: }>spoons were never typically used when eating, the word
: }>appears to have been in the language for a long time,
: }>suggesting that it may once have meant something else. One
: }>theory is that it comes from {nagh beQ} "flat stone, flat
: }>rock" and that the initial sounds of the two words, {n} and
: }>{b}, were, for some reason, transposed. This is, however,
: }>just speculation.
: }
: }Oh. My. Goodness. He's gone and done it again. Transposing the
: }initial sounds of the word for "spoon" indeed... aaarrrggghh!
:
: jIvemDI' vItlhoj. *spoonerism* 'oH jIjatlhmeH jIrar. tlhu'DI' MO
vangnISlaw'.
:
: Qov [email protected]
: ghay'cha'! qIDDaj DaQIj 'e' vItlhob.
: It may be because I haven't had my qa'vIn this morning, but I just don't
get it.
: Is this a reference to some brand name of cutlery?
:
: Voragh
toH, pay' jIyajchoHpu'!
Voragh