tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 01 10:39:59 2004
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Re: Klingon WOTD: leSpal (n)
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Russ Perry Jr wrote:
> I don't see any puns there, but I'm still trying to think of what
> the {tIngDagh} would be -- at first I was thinking it was a bass or
> cello (violin family, though it mentions nothing about bowing the
> strings in the KGT piece above), maybe a bass guitar (though I'm not
> sure that would be used only mostly in operas). However, I'm
> beginning to think that possibly the {tIngDagh} is a harp. Are
> there any famous harpists named Ting? :-)
ting(1) is [Mandarin] Chinese for listen/hear.