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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] geometry terminology in Klingon

Rohan Fenwick ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>ghItlhpu' De'vID, jatlh:<br>&gt; I received an email from Dr. Okrand this morning, which contained a<br><div>&gt; list of vocabulary.<br><br>maj! Some useful words in amongst these for architects, builders, geometers. Some clear puns in amongst them too :)<br><br>&gt; polygon - mey’<br><br>Further to what Voragh says about {meyrI'}, I wonder if there might also be an etymological connection with the plural suffix {-mey}.<br><br>&gt;     rectangle - letbaQ<br><br>Possible pun: "Let[ter]box"?<br><br>&gt;   three-sided base - qu’vu’<br><br>As Voragh has just pointed out (beat me to it!), Khufu was the 4th-Dynasty Egyptian pharaoh for whom the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt served as the tomb. Also, for those not aware, a pyramid having a three-sided base (and consequently having all four sides forming triangles) has the special name of "tetrahedron".<br><br>&gt; cube - buq’Ir<br><br>Hah! I like this one. It's from the most famous cube of all, Rubik's Cube, but - appropriately - scrambled (buq'Ir &gt; ru'bIq).<br><br>QeS<br></div> 		 	   		  </div></body>
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