tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 05 14:57:17 1997
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Re: Word origin speculation
On Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:41:36 -0800,
"David Trimboli" <[email protected]> wrote about Word origin speculation:
> I was wondering if anyone knows what kind of car Marc Okrand was driving
> around, oh, say, 1983? Was is a broken down Saab? Or perhaps someone he knew
> had one? Maybe his neighbor "Jill"?
>
> Perhaps Okrand had a reason to make the word {Sab} mean "decline,
> deteriorate."
>
> --
> SuStel
> Beginners' Grammarian
> Stardate 97098.4
>
Perhaps he got this word from the Terran word 'shabby'. =)
Kavok