tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 01 16:09:55 1996
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Re: New words in HolQeD 5.1
- From: [email protected] (Anthony Curran)
- Subject: Re: New words in HolQeD 5.1
- Date: Wed, 1 May 96 18:09:44 -0500 (CDT)
>>>lung = lizard (n)
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>>{Duran lung} might be a name similar to "Komodo dragon", so {lung} might
>>not be the literal word for "lizard."
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>The thing is, we don't have a cannon example of a series of nouns (NOT
>compound
>nouns) meaning anything but what the individual words mean. I think it's
>pretty
>safe to think of <lung> as a generic for lizard. (Now, you do know that the
>Komodo is not a lizard, right? It's it own special category.)
>
Wow! Someone else who knows that there's a difference between lizards and
monitors. Cool!
Since we are displaying our knowledge of biology, I have something to point
out to ghunchu'wI'. The extertnal portion of the ear, <qogh> in tlhIngan
Hol, is called the "pinna" of the ear.
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>r'Hul
Anthony Curran
qo'ran
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http://web2.airmail.net/acurran