tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 15 12:25:01 1997
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Re: yet more KGT puns
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:39:41 -0700 (PDT), ~mark wrote:
>A word like [Stan] would, indeed, break the rules of Klingon phonology so
>far as we know them, and unless our data is wrong (which would be very
>surprising considering how much data we have), could not exist in Klingon.
>However, I don't Scott was suggesting this; I think he was just joking
>about Okrand's jokes, saying that following the punning style we've been
>seeing, he'd have expected [Stan] to be the word for "big" (for some reason
>which I don't personally know).
Hu'tegh!
I was not joking; I was unaware of this rule. TKD gave me information
on pronouncing and using words, but I recall nothing on constructing
them. Have I been derelict in my studies, or is this information to
be found elsewhere (thus not previously available to me)?
My reason for desiring {Stan} to mean "be big" is quite simple: "Be
Big" is the title of a short film featuring Oliver Hardy and *Stan*
Laurel.
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Scott D. Randel
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