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Re: ben vs. ben

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: ben vs. ben
• Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:33:07 -0600
• In-reply-to: <003601c62840$4ab82d40$bbc392d9@babylon>
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At 11:21 AM Thursday 2/2/2006, Igor=Aryeh wrote:

>...ben jIboghpu'
>"I was born ... years ago"
>
>'Ani ben ... Hu' ben ... (in regard to males) "I am ... [years] old",
>"He is ... [years] old".
>
>'Ani bat ... Hi' bat ... (in regard to females) "I am ... [years] old",
>"She is ... [years] old" .
>
>Has the Hebrew parallel already been noticed?

I don't believe anyone's ever suggested it before, but you may be on to 
something.  If it's not an intentional pun, Okrand may well have remembered 
it (unconsciously) from his Hebrew.

FYI:  {ben} first appeared in 1985 in the glossary to the TKD where it's 
glossed "years ago".  Okrand extended the meaning to "years old" in a 1996 
startrek.klingon post, which he then added to the glossary of KGT in 1997.




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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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