tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 12 07:47:47 2006
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Klingon insight
Lawrence M. Schoen (lawrence@klingonguy.com) ![[KLI Member]](/pics/KLImemberbutton.gif "[KLI Member]")
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- From: "Lawrence M. Schoen" <lawrence@klingonguy.com>
- Subject: Klingon insight
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:46:05 -0400
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- Thread-topic: Klingon insight
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I may have just stumbled across a neologism in Klingon.
<bop'egh> <I>be egocentric</I>
<hr>
from the Hokey Pokey <B>qep'a'</B> revealed a couple years back:
<bop> <I>be all about</I>
(as in <'e' bop> <I>that's what it's all
about</I>
and the reflexive suffix <B>-'egh</B>
What do you think?
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