tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 19 12:56:16 2003
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Re: Names of digits
From: "Tad Stauffer" <[email protected]>
> At 12:59 PM 2/17/2003 -0600, Voragh wrote:
>
> >In the same article, Okrand also introduced {rIl} "play (a wind
> >instrument)", which he explained as being a brass technique, not a flute
> >technique, and most typically used with {gheb} "horn (musical
instrument)"
> >as its object.
> >
> >Is there some horn technique that involves thumbing {rIl} a hole?
>
> Ah yes, now I remember... someone on the list had pointed out that {gheb
> rIl} sounds like "Gabriel", the trumpet-playing archangel. However, this
> still doesn't explain why {Sen} is usually used by adults, and {rIl} by
> children. So maybe there's yet another pun hidden.
That's a bit stretched. Anyway, you could continue to stretch it by saying
that /Sen/ sounds like "Saint" . . . .
SuStel
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