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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] new word

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From: Klingonteacher <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] new word
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:23:55 +0100
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ja' lay'tel:
> I think I have it. I don't want to spoil it, though.

I didn't tell anyone during the qepHom, cause I wanted them to find itout themselves. Nobody did :-)


ghItlh taD:
> I think the main pun/gag here is that the English abbreviation
> "www" can be translated as "QQQ", if we use the last (rather than
> first) letter of each syllable in weQmoQnaQ.

That was my first thought too, but the existing meaning of the syllableskept bugging me. He could have used any syllable for that.



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