tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 09 17:22:09 1999
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Re: mu'mey Dajqu'
- From: "Patrick Masterson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: mu'mey Dajqu'
- Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:21:58 PST
>From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: mu'mey Dajqu'
>Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 20:51:20 -0800 (PST)
>
>ja' T'Lod:
>>I've found that looking at the jokes hidden in some words help me
remember
>>them, such as "fire" (qul - cool), etc.
>
>I have exactly the opposite experience. The words with the most
obvious
>puns actively interfere with my being able to use them transparently.
I
>can never use the words {'ul} or {'awje'} or {Haq} without the pun
going
>off strongly in my mind. The ones I use often enough do start to lose
a
>bit of the impact eventually.
Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly ARE the puns for 'ul, 'awje' and
Haq (which,if I remember correctly are "electricity", "root beer", and
"perform surgery on", respectively)
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