tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 12 20:27:14 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: yatqap (noun)
ja' QeS 'utlh:
> wej qID SovchoHlu'be' 'e' vIHar. Terran birds that come to mind
> include the
> albatross and the tern, but I can't work out what the joke might be.
I thought of swallows -- some of them are migratory. :)
> In
> addition, the word {qap} "insist" doesn't yield anything promising
How about the first syllable of Capistrano?
> (nor, for
> that matter, do the reverse syllables {tay} "ceremony" or {paq}
> "book", and
> *{yat} has no meaning in Klingon).
The Swallow was a famous yacht of the late 19th and early 20th
century; its custom-built boat house Swallow's Nest still stands at
Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.
-- ghunchu'wI'