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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] new words [Re: Festival of the Spoken Nerd
lojmitti7wi7nuv (lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com)
- From: lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] new words [Re: Festival of the Spoken Nerd
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 15:52:23 -0400
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I missed the reference. How is {qatru’} a reference to Dr. Seuss?
As for {ngom}, the most common extended description of a geek is “a pencil-necked geek”. {mong} is “neck”.
Coincidence?
lojmIt tI’wI’ nuv ‘utlh
Retired Door Repair Guy
> On May 6, 2015, at 5:44 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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