tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 22 14:38:20 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Se'tu'
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Boozer [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 11 April 2013 17:32
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Se'tu'
>
> > Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, April 11, 2013
> >
> > Klingon word: Se'tu'
> > Part of speech: noun
> > Definition: saucepan
> > Source: TalkNow - Learn Klingon!, revealed 30 September 2011
>
> AFAIK never used in a sentence.
>
> Mark Okrand wrote to qe'San (11/02/2011):
>
> I haven't talked with ***** about saucepan, but here's what I
> was thinking. The picture is, as you say, a little pot (or pan)
> with a single handle, which is exactly what a saucepan is [...]
> {'un} is any sort of pot or pan, so the picture is a picture of
> a {'un} (though lots of other pictures might also be used for
> {'un}). A {nevDagh} has two little handles on it, so the picture
> is not one of a {nevDagh}. Thinking a bit more about it, perhaps
> {'unHom} would have been better--or at least more restrictive.
> Or maybe there should be a new word. Like {Se'tu'}.
>
> [I suspect a pun here, but I can't see it!]
The pun as I saw it was because what was written above followed my
questioning of Marc. So there had been a kind of argument
or a "set-to" which Marc finished by offering the new word Se'tu' so how
could I refuse.
I accepted the offer and for me if for no-one else it will be because of the
"set-to" we'd had.
qe'San
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