tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 15 11:08:51 1998
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Re: betleH mu'
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: betleH mu'
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:10:52 -0700 (PDT)
---Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>
> At 02:59 PM 7/14/98 -0700, Qov wrote:
> >---Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> >I am puzzled as to how the concave part could be
> >a /pach/. A claw
> >sticks out, eh?
>
> Actually, I guess the /pach/ would be the entire
> end, the points and the
> curve between them. In Klingon /pach/ seems to
> refer to two different
> structures (as does the English 'claw'): a single keratinous point on
> the end of a digit (as in /nItlhpach/) and an entire grasping
structure (as in
> /pIpyuS pach/). I was thinking of the latter imagry.
Ahhh, jIyaj. reH pIpyuS qellu'DI', *lobster* vIqel. Do we know that
the pIpyuS pach is a grasping structure, or could it be one large
exoskeletal claw that contains meat, or perhaps not a claw at all,
just a meaty extremity, the way there is no real horn involved in a
rhino 'horn' or a Great 'Horned' Owl?
Hey, is lobster prohibitively expensive in Philidelphia? A Klingon
lobster dinner is a sight I'd like to see. What else can you eat with
a hammer and your hands? pIpyuS tIghoooooooor!
==
Qov - Beginners' Grammarian
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