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Re: Klingon WOTD: yatqap (noun)

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: yatqap (noun)
• Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:26:48 -0400
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ja' QeS 'utlh:

> 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.

I thought of swallows -- some of them are migratory. :)

> In
> addition, the word {qap} "insist" doesn't yield anything promising

How about the first syllable of Capistrano?

> (nor, for
> that matter, do the reverse syllables {tay} "ceremony" or {paq}  
> "book", and
> *{yat} has no meaning in Klingon).

The Swallow was a famous yacht of the late 19th and early 20th  
century; its custom-built boat house Swallow's Nest still stands at  
Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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