[Tlhingan-hol] Chinese puns in Klingon?

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 02:35:41 PST 2012


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Lieven <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> ja' Voragh:
>
>> Can anyone contribute any others?
>
>
> I'm not sure, but I thought that {qung} is chinese for "hole".
> Can anyone corfirm that?

There's "kǒng", though the vowel doesn't exactly match, but it may be
close enough.
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?wdqb=%E5%AD%94

(Click on the arrow next to "kǒng", there will be a speaker icon and
you can hear it spoken and judge for yourself how close it is to
{qung}.)

--
De'vID



More information about the Tlhingan-hol mailing list