tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 18 15:49:54 2002
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Re: More puns in new vocab
On 18-Jan-02, [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 1/16/2002 6:24:22 PM Mountain Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
>
>> {cha'par} from PARtridge?
>>
>> It might as well be a PARrot
>
> Following the analogy of cha'bIp and cha'Do, I get "parpar," the Hebrew word
> for "butterfly."
The pun might as well be that "parpar" contains the word parp which may have
musical conotations, or something to do with gaseous anomalies.
While we are on the subject of Parrots, anyone would think that this sudden
influx of avian vocabulary is a subtle hint to get me to rewrite the restored
Klingon version of the Dead Parrot Sketch.
Regards,
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