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Re: Klingon WOTD: lung (noun)

Stephen A. Carter ([email protected])

From: "Stephen A. Carter" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: lung (noun)
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:41:45 +0900 (JST)
Cc: "Stephen A. Carter" <[email protected]>
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:00:01 -0600, [email protected] wrote:
>Klingon word:   lung
>Part of Speech: noun 
>Definition:     type of animal, [loong] (lizardlike) 
>Source: KGT (218 KE, 234 EK) 
>Swedish: ett slags djur, ~loong~ (ödleliknande)
>
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 49: A {lung} is not really a dragon, but that is a close approximation.

Perhaps a pun on the Chinese word for dragon?  In Mandarin, the word
is romanized as "lung" (Wade-Giles) or "long" (pinyin), and takes the
second tone.  In Cantonese, it's usually romanized as "lung" (fourth
tone), although it's also the "loon" in "Kowloon."

-- Stephen Carter
   [email protected]
   Nagoya, Japan

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