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Re: porgh 'ay'mey bIH 'e' boQub'a'?



>From: [email protected] (Erich Schneider)
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<much tlhIngan deleted>

>And now I drop into English ... which meaning of "spine" do you think
>Okrand intended? The thing whose breakage could cause my paralysis, or
>the things on a porcupine?

Personally, I always assumed it was both.  After all, he doesn't say; and
many languages (at I don't think It's just English) have same-spelled
homonyms.  (I'm sure there's a Technical Term (tm) for that.

Susan

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>-QumpIn 'avrIn
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>Erich Schneider  [email protected]  http://tamsun.tamu.edu/~ers0925
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