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Re: New word #3

MorphemeAddict ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol taghwI']



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In a message dated 7/27/2005 5:09:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> The word is {bop}, it's a verb meaning "be all about (something)."  So for
> example, {HolQeD bopbe' paqvam} "this book is not all about linguistics."  
> 
> Here's the story:
> 
> It was during the cabaret, and Krankor observed that it's difficult to
> *really* do the Hokey Pokey in Klingon without being able to say "and that's
> what it's all about."  In years past, it's all sung in English, except for
> the actual names of the body parts.  "You put your qIvon in, you put your
> qIvon out..." and so on.
> 
> So Marc asked Krankor, if the word, were, say {bop}, how would you use it?
> Krankor replied that he'd say {'e' bop} "that's what it's all about."  To
> which Marc responded, "that's what it is."
> 
> So now we can really do the Hokey Pokey in Klingon.  And *that's* what it's
> all about.
> 
> --Holtej 'utlh
> 

Hmmm, I was under the impression that {bop} means "to be about", without 
'all'.  Its use in the Hokey Pokey as "to be all about" was merely an extension of 
its basic meaning.

lay'tel SIvten






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