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Re: Klingon WOTD: yatqap (noun)

QeS 'utlh ([email protected])



ghItlhpu' Holtej, ja':
>yatqap

jang Voragh, ja':
>Has anyone figured out the pun behind this one?

wej qID SovchoHlu'be' 'e' vIHar. Terran birds that come to mind include the 
albatross and the tern, but I can't work out what the joke might be. In 
addition, the word {qap} "insist" doesn't yield anything promising (nor, for 
that matter, do the reverse syllables {tay} "ceremony" or {paq} "book", and 
*{yat} has no meaning in Klingon).

The only well-known reference to albatrosses I can think of is in the Rime 
of the Ancient Mariner, so I might dig through that and see what I can find.

QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute


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