tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 18 14:52:41 1995
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Re: Crispin's Klingon
On 18 Dec 95 at 13:56, Will Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> tlheghmeH says:
>
> > I don't have the book with me today, but the sentence it was used
> > in went something like: "You are as lovely as a chal flower in
> > bloom." so I assume it's the name of a specific flower.
> >
> >tlheghmeQ
>
> By that rationale, we might consider "sun" to be a kind of flower.
> True, we have "sunflower"s, but I suspect here that we are merely
> having a "sky flower" and not necessarily creating any new words at
> all.
Seeing it in context, I agree. This would just seem to be a type of
flower, we still don't know how to say "flower".
> charghwI'
maSqa'
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