tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 18 06:41:18 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] birds (was Re: Klingon Bird-of-Prey Haynes Manual)
cha'par ... is a pun on Jazz Musician Charlie Parker who was known as "The Bird" and had a bar called Birdland.<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Steven Boozer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">De'vID<br>
> *{cherwItlh} - I've never heard of this, where is it from?<br>
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*cherwtl* [sic], a type of bird native to Klinzhai (from the pro-novel _Dwellers in the Crucible_). This was coined before Okrand gave us so many bird names and occasionally shows up in some fan fiction.<br>
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> Does anyone know the puns behind these ones?<br>
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I don't know them all, but here's what I have in my notes...<br>
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> {cha'naS} - a small bird which digs up bugs to eat<br>
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1. National Audubon Society? (NAS)<br>
2. *nasnas* ("Another variety of Nasnas, having the wings of a bat, inhabits the island of Raij (perhaps Borneo) at the edge of the China seas." (<a href="http://www.hum.au.dk/romansk/borges/vakalo/zf/html/body_the_nasnas.html"; target="_blank">http://www.hum.au.dk/romansk/borges/vakalo/zf/html/body_the_nasnas.html</a>)?<br>
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> {cha'par} - a bird notes for its song<br>
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Spanish *parpar* "quack" (the sound made by a duck). (Okrand speaks Spanish; indeed his 1977 Ph.D. dissertation "Mutsun Grammar" was primarily based on Spanish documents.)<br>
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> {lotlhmoq} - a bird that swoops into the water in order to catch food,<br>
> but cannot swim<br>
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Possibly not a pun. It first appeared in Keith R.A. DeCandido's _Enemy Territory_ as a "predatory bird native to Qo'noS that swoops into the water to catch food".<br>
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> {yatqap} - a grey (sometimes white) bird that can travel particularly<br>
> long distances without pausing<br>
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"I thought of swallows - some of them are migratory. How about the first syllable of Capistrano? The Swallow was a famous yacht of the late 19th and early 20th century; its custom-built boat house Swallow's Nest still stands at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire." (ghunchu'wI')<br>
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Voragh<br>
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<br>
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