tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 06 07:53:58 1998
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Re: MO about fork and spoon
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: MO about fork and spoon
- Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 07:50:59 -0700
At 05:57 98-05-06 -0700, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
}>> From: "Marc Okrand" <[email protected]>
}>>[...]
}>>The Klingon word for "spoon" is {baghneQ}. Even though
}>>spoons were never typically used when eating, the word
}>>appears to have been in the language for a long time,
}>>suggesting that it may once have meant something else. One
}>>theory is that it comes from {nagh beQ} "flat stone, flat
}>>rock" and that the initial sounds of the two words, {n} and
}>>{b}, were, for some reason, transposed. This is, however,
}>>just speculation.
}
}Oh. My. Goodness. He's gone and done it again. Transposing the
}initial sounds of the word for "spoon" indeed... aaarrrggghh!
jIvemDI' vItlhoj. *spoonerism* 'oH jIjatlhmeH jIrar. tlhu'DI' MO vangnISlaw'.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian