tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 22 06:54:37 1996
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Re: bomlut = opera
- From: "Donald E. Vick" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: bomlut = opera
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 06:47:15 -0800 (PST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "DloraH" at Nov 22, 96 06:08:12 am
> Before this discussion about bomlut being opera, I was writing some notes
> and needed a word for opera; I came up with bomlut.
>
> Thaddaeus Vick wrote:
> >I would be more likely to think of a ballad or epic poem.
>
> So how about if we used bomlut'a' or QoQlut'a' for a way to describe opera?
Honestly, I would still think of a ballad or epic poem first, albeit with
the -'a' suffix I'd think of a very long one. Beowulf?
>
> (notice I said to 'describe' opera, not be a new word for opera.)
IMO bomlut or QoQlut are perfectly good words for opera, but you *do*
need to footnote them - they're just not obvious enough.
taDI'oS vIq, law'wI'pu'vaD Holtej jIH
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