tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 14 21:55:17 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chevwI' tlhoy'
- From: jaSwa' <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chevwI' tlhoy'
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:54:51 -0600
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I guess I don't see it.
jaSwa'
Hochlogh bechjaj Hoch jaghpu'wI'
De'vID <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, February 14, 2013
>>>
>>> Klingon word: chevwI' tlhoy'
>>> Part of speech: noun
>>> Definition: territorial wall (e.g. Berlin Wall)
>>
>> Source: startrek.klingon (12/7/1998):
>>
>> The wall around a city is a {yergho}, which is apparently derived from {yer} "domain, holdings, territory" plus {gho} "circle."
>
>This is an allusion to a Biblical story.
>
>> A wall which divides a territory into parts (such as the Berlin Wall) is also called a {tlhoy'}, even though neither side of it is the interior of a structure. On occasion, for clarity, such a wall is termed a {chevwI' tlhoy'} "separator wall") or a {pIn tlhoy'}, literally "boss wall," presumably dating back to a time when each subterritory had a specific person in charge."
>
>I just now got the joke behind this.
>
>--
>De'vID
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