tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 27 11:47:54 1995
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Re: }}} Paintball Terms
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: }}} Paintball Terms
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 11:47:54 -0400
>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 09:20:32 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Elizabeth C. Hoyt" <[email protected]>
>A new subject line, a clean slate.
>Someone, I think it was Lawrence, used {qepHey} for "Virtual qep'a'", so
>how about calling the game of paintball {may'Hey}? (I think that has a
>nice ring to it.)
Yeah, that's pretty good. Especially in context, when people knew awhat
you were referring to. I like it.
>I think {may'qoq} would describe a battle that wasn't really much of a
>battle, rather than a simulated one.
I agree.
>I just looked (rather quickly) through TKD, and the only word for a
>projectile I can find is {peng} (torpedo). Perhaps the word for the
>paintball itself could be {pengHomHey} with the plural being
>{pengHommeyHey} (I just wanted to practice my suffix ordering.)
Hee... The joys of suffixes. I imagine in context you could probably get
away with just "peng", though "pengHom" might be better. In a sense it
really *is* a pengHom, but since it doesn't truly damage the -Hey is not
misplaced.
Hmm. Maybe we're extending the meaning of -Hey too much. -Hey seems to
imply more uncertainty than "being sortakinda", if you read its definition.
Personally, I'd *like* it if we could use -Hey as you're using it, and I
think I have done so. There also may be some canon supporting it. I think
I'll tentatively support such usage, hoping we get some canon support.
Anyone know of any?
~mark