tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 22 23:19:02 1996

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Re: bomlut = opera

>
>> 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.
>

what would you call bomlutHom?

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