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Re: Klingon WOTD: lom (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: lom (n)
• Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:01:10 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, October 29, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   lom
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     corpse

Never used in canon.

Don't confuse with {porgh} "body" and {ro} "torso".

>Additional Notes:
>Goes in a {mol}.

I.e. "grave" backwards! (Note also {nol} "funeral} and the verb {mol} "bury".)

Some people have seen {lom} as a pun from "loam" (i.e. earth to earth).



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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