tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 15 05:45:40 1998

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Re: Comics




> ja' SuStel:
> >>Comics that appear in American
> >>newspapers are often called "the funny papers".
> >
> >Even more frequently, they're called "funnies."
> >
> >tlhaQghach.
> 
> pIj pervam lo'law' tuqlIj'e'.  pongqoqvam vIQoypu'be' jIH.
> vIQoybe'bej'pu'.  not vIQoy'pu'.
> 
> More frequently around *you*, perhaps.  I've always heard them called
> "comics" or "funny papers", and I've never heard the term "funnies"
used
> in any context I can recall.  It sounds dreadfully close to something
> like "teletubbies"...and its weirdness is indeed mirrored by 
> {tlhaQghach}.

Daj.  reH "funnies" vIpermeH mu'vetlh vIlo'.  vIQoyDI' Hujlaw'be'.

> -- ghunchu'wI'

--Holtej



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