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Re: Reduplication & idioms (was DujHom chu' vIje'nIS)

• From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
• Subject: Re: Reduplication & idioms (was DujHom chu' vIje'nIS)
• Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 22:28:09 -0500

Bill Wermerdinger writes:
>Would not {ghIchwIj DanochmoHchugh, ghIchlIj qanob} also qualify as
>idiom?

Yes, certainly.  I've never heard the tapes, so I only know of this
saying secondhand, and I had forgotten about it.  The whole idea of
"shining someone's nose" is idiomatic Klingon for what we sometimes
call "pulling someone's leg".

-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj

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