tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 13 12:33:30 2006
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Re: ben vs. ben
At 11:21 AM Thursday 2/2/2006, Igor=Aryeh wrote:
>...ben jIboghpu'
>"I was born ... years ago"
>
>'Ani ben ... Hu' ben ... (in regard to males) "I am ... [years] old",
>"He is ... [years] old".
>
>'Ani bat ... Hi' bat ... (in regard to females) "I am ... [years] old",
>"She is ... [years] old" .
>
>Has the Hebrew parallel already been noticed?
I don't believe anyone's ever suggested it before, but you may be on to
something. If it's not an intentional pun, Okrand may well have remembered
it (unconsciously) from his Hebrew.
FYI: {ben} first appeared in 1985 in the glossary to the TKD where it's
glossed "years ago". Okrand extended the meaning to "years old" in a 1996
startrek.klingon post, which he then added to the glossary of KGT in 1997.
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons