tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 26 07:52:45 1997
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Re: lom
- From: "eric d. zay" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: lom
- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 10:58:13 -0500
> A friend of mine, who occasionally listens to me babble on about Klingon,
has
> just detected an Okrandian pun (or, at least, what seems to be one). Has
> anyone ever nocited this one before?
>
> English: loam (n) a loose soil composed of clay and sand, esp. a kind
> containing organic matter and of great fertility.
>
> Etc.
>
> Klingon:
> lom (n) corpse
> lam (n) dirt
> lam (v) be dirty
>
> Coincidence? Wrong? Really cool?
>
> --
> SuStel
In addition to that, spelling *lom* backwards yields *mol* "to bury.
SuSvaj