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Re: nughI'

Philip Newton ([email protected])

From: Philip Newton <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: nughI'
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:42:51 +0200
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On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:51:39 -0500, Steven Boozer
<[email protected]> wrote:
>    So SuSvaj asked Okrand, what the Klingon word
>    for "noogie" was. He replied, "Well that would be {nughI'}."

So are we sure that {nughI'} is a verb at all? (OTOH, if it were a
noun, I don't know what verb would fit - the English construction
"give s.o. a noogie" sounds strange when rendered as {vay'vaD nughI'
vInobpu'} since I don't think {nob} really fits.)

Cheers,
-- 
Philip Newton <[email protected]>

References:
- nughI'
  - From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <[email protected]>
- Re: nughI'
  - From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>

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