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Re: Klingon insight

Thorwald Peeters ([email protected])

• From: "Thorwald Peeters" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon insight
• Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:39:57 +0200 (CEST)
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<citaat van="Lawrence M. Schoen">
> I may have just stumbled across a neologism in Klingon.
>
> <bop'egh> <I>be egocentric</I>
> <hr>
> from the Hokey Pokey <B>qep'a'</B> revealed a couple years back:
>
> <bop> <I>be all about</I>
> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(as in <'e' bop> <I>that's what it's all
> about</I>
>
> and the reflexive suffix <B>-'egh</B>

> What do you think?

Be all about ones self.
That would work, for me anyway...

Also I think there might be some sort of pun in there, depending on from
which part of the empire one is from.

bop'egh -> bopper?
-- 
Thorwald Peeters
a.k.a. qa'pIn qorghon puqloD, qI'meQ tuq
a.k.a. SoplaHtaHwI'
Khemorex KlinzhaivaD tuqmey ghItlhwI''a'

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