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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] new words [Re: Festival of the Spoken Nerd

De'vID (de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com) 

On 5 May 2015 at 07:57, PICHLMANN Christoph
<Christoph.PICHLMANN@agrana.com> wrote:
>>I think I see no pun in {ven}.
> My first thought upon reading the description was "this reads more like a fan(atic) than a nerd". If you read the "v" as an "f" it sounds like "fan".

As has been mentioned elsewhere, {qatru'} is a reference to Dr. Seuss:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd

Now what about {ngom}?

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