[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: buq

[Steven Boozer]

>>> Klingon word:   buq
>>> Part of speech: noun
>>> Definition:     bag, sack, pouch, pocket

Voragh:
>> PUN:
>> Pocket Books.  Cf. also {paq} "book"!

Christopher Kidder:
> I might suggest that the pun is there as the first part
> of "Bookbag" in the same was that the pun for DaS is the
> first part of "Das Boot"

A double pun is certainly possible, although I'd point out that "Pocket Books" (a division of Simon & Schuster) is Okrand's publisher (TKD, TKW, KGT, etc.).


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons