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Re: Klingon at the Thanksgiving table - A month late...

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



voan:
> > My "knowledge" of the vocabulary is surprisingly small, so while I
> > have access to "all" of the words, I don't know from memory which
> > words are avaliable.

ghunchu'wI':
>The best way I know of to learn what is in the vocabulary is to copy
>it, a word at a time.  You might not remember many of the words, but
>you'll definitely remember that they exist, and you'll have a better
>idea about what to look up.

You'll also discover some very curious vocabulary.  For example, who would 
have guessed there would be words for paper clip {mavjop}, writer's cramp 
{ngav} or pajamas {nIvnav}?  And although they started out as little jokes 
by Okrand, they can sometimes come in handy.  For example, we saw Worf 
wearing pajamas in that TNG episode where the crew devolves into their 
primitive ancestral forms.  (Anyone remember the episode title?)



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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