tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 08 07:17:38 1996
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Re: toughie
>Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 22:59:53 -0800
>From: [email protected]
>In a message dated 96-03-31 12:23:27 EST, ~mark asks for a word for
>"fragile":
>>I had always heard it as "Indians scattered..." so my first sentence was
>>also a sentence fragment. There was no way I could do "fragile, eggshell
>>mind" so I did what i could. Oh for a word for "fragile." {lomqa'} is
>>used in Hamlet for "ghost"; I can't take credit for it. I decided it was
>>marginally better than "qa'". Indeed, it's He'a' with only one stop in the
>>middle (and one at the end), since it's "He" (no stop: one of the
>>occasional open-syllable words in Klingon) plus "-'a'".
>We have seen {rotlhbe'} used once for "fragile."
I like it... but where have we seen it?
>peHruS
~mark