tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 12 10:12:30 1997
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ACBLJ again?
- From: "Jarno Peschier" <[email protected]>
- Subject: ACBLJ again?
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:14:04 +0100
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- Organization: Utrecht University, Computer Science
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On 11 Aug 97 at 22:35, David Trimboli wrote:
> I haven't even finished reading the whole book yet, but I just had
> to go on about this new word which I thought was terribly funny:
>
> "A general, all-purpose knife that seems to be able to cut through
> practically anything is a {'aqnaw}."
Am I missing something really simple here or this another example of
an "American culture based language joke" (let's call them ACBLJ's
from now on, huh? ;-)). I find nothing funny about this whatsoever.
Sorry.... Please explain.
Qapla'
peSHIr
P.S. This is really the reason I think a list of these things (with
explaination) is really needed or at least desirable.
Jarno Peschier, computer science student, Utrecht University
mailto:[email protected] http://jarno.home.ml.org/
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