tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 21 06:26:27 2007
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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghangwI' (noun)
- From: [email protected] (Steve)
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ghangwI' (noun)
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:24:45 +0000
mmm... Don't forget Chang and Eng (Siamese twins)
-------------- Original message from Steven Boozer <[email protected]>: --------------
> Voragh:
> > > Anybody get the joke behind {ghangwI'}?
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> Quvar:
> >I'm just kidding, I really don't know ;-)
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> I should have checked this first, but according to the "Puns in the
> Vocabulary of tlhIngan Hol" page, *Gan* is Old Chinese for "horizon". See
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> www.kli.org/wiki/index.php?Puns%20in%20the%20Vocabulary%20of%20tlhIngan%20Hol
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> Okrand has made at least one other Chinese pun - i.e. {lung} and, possibly,
> {chan}.
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> So, apparently no relationship with {ghang} "end prematurely".
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> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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