tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 07 10:08:24 1999
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Re: mu'mey Dajqu'
- From: SuSvaj <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: mu'mey Dajqu'
- Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 13:19:46 -0500
At 09:42 AM 3/7/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Oh, I'm completely aware of MO's twisted sense of humour [witness the
>tlhingan word for "spoon" :-)]. That fact actually encourages me to look
>for such puns.
>
>> > Last and certainly best:
>> >
>> > Ha'DIbaH - animal. lit. "let's go kill (shoot) them!" From:
>> > <Ha'> - let's go, and
>> > <DIbaH> - we fire (missiles/arrows/etc.) at them.
Now there is one that I never noticed!
SuSvaj
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>>
>> This is pretty good. I think you have discovered not the actual
>> "Klingon"
>> components of the word, but another example of MO's sense of humor.
>> We've been compiling lists of single-word puns for a long time (KGT is
>> _full_ of them), but
>> as far as I can remember, you're the first to point this one out.
>
>COOL!!!
>
>> > Are there any more mu'mey Dajqu'? If so let me know; I'm compiling a
list.
>>
>> As amusements or aids to vocabulary learning, such lists are great.
>> Just don't read
>> too much into them.
>>
>> -- ter'eS
>>
>>
>quljIb
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