tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 21 02:35:58 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Chinese puns in Klingon?
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Lieven <[email protected]> wrote:
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> ja' Voragh:
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>> Can anyone contribute any others?
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> I'm not sure, but I thought that {qung} is chinese for "hole".
> Can anyone corfirm that?
There's "kǒng", though the vowel doesn't exactly match, but it may be
close enough.
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?wdqb=%E5%AD%94
(Click on the arrow next to "kǒng", there will be a speaker icon and
you can hear it spoken and judge for yourself how close it is to
{qung}.)
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De'vID
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