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Re: Klingon insight

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon insight
• Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:43:34 -0500
• In-reply-to: <C12C406D.A101%[email protected]>
• References: <C12C406D.A101%[email protected]>

nuQum Lawrence:
>I may have just stumbled across a neologism in Klingon.
>   <bop'egh> <I>be egocentric</I>
>from the Hokey Pokey <B>qep'a'</B> revealed a couple years back:
>   <bop> <I>be all about</I>
>as in <'e' bop> <I>that's what it's all about</I> and the reflexive suffix 
><B>-'egh</B>
>What do you think?

Not bad, though *{buS'egh} might be better - from {buS} "concentrate on, 
focus on, think only about, pay attention to".

A similar idea is {mut} "be selfish".



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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