tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 13 05:06:07 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: yatqap (noun)
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: yatqap (noun)
- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:04:53 +1000
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ghItlhpu' ghunchu'wI', ja':
>I thought of swallows -- some of them are migratory. :)
Indeed - well spotted! (We don't have very many migratory birds in
Australia, and marine birds are the ones I'm most familiar with...)
jIghItlhpu', jIja':
>and *{yat} has no meaning in Klingon).
mujang ghunchu'wI', ja':
>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.
Again, my Australian heritage doesn't stand me in good stead... I suspect
you may be on to the pun in this one. majQa'!
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
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- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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