tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 22 15:05:31 2000
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Re: mu' qID subgenres
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- Subject: Re: mu' qID subgenres
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:05:07 -0500 (EST)
jatlh qa'ral:
> [...] wordplay in which the Klingon word followed by its
> English translation form a meaningful unit:
>[...]
>Another subgenre (by no means a new discovery) is what I call the
>"antonymous pun":
>[...]
>Any more candidates?
<lam> yIqel.
"(be) dirty" <lam> -> "dirty lamb". It's meaningful
if you string it together *and* it's an antonym: "Mary had
a little lamb, her fleece was white as snow".
--
De'vID [who admits that this is a complete stretch, but
thought it was fun coming up with it anyway]
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