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Re: Klingon WOTD: peng (noun)

QeS 'utlh ([email protected])

• From: QeS 'utlh <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: peng (noun)
• Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:43:14 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Voragh, ja':
>The warhead of the torpedo is called its {jorneb} (which seems to
>contain the verb {jor} ["explode"] but is otherwise not analyzable).

No longer, I suspect. In HolQeD 10:4, pp. 4-5, where we are given vocabulary connected with birds, we are given the noun {neb} "beak, bill of a bird"; I find the idea of a torpedo or missile as a bird of prey diving at its target beak-first to be a rather apposite metaphor.

QeS 'utlh
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