tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 04 17:08:44 1999
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
SIQtaH (was Re: Problem Words)
ja' charghwI':
>bangwI' juppu' DIghoS. ghaytan jIHvaD Dal ghu' vaj De'wI'
>vIqenglaHbogh vIqeng. SIQjaj HoS HalDaj!
My first impulse was to think {SIQjaj} should have been {taHjaj}. Then
I read it again, and realized what it really said.
That's probably the first bilingual pun I've noticed whose "primary"
language is Klingon but relies on a knowledge of English to be funny,
instead of the other way around.
-- ghunchu'wI'