[Tlhingan-hol] More new words from Maltz

Felix Malmenbeck felixm at kth.se
Thu Jan 26 18:00:13 PST 2012


ghItlhta' QeS 'utlh,
> Not Tasmania, but you're not far from it. It'll be referring to the Tasman Sea,
> which separates Australia and New Zealand. Both Kiwis and us Aussies often
> refer to the other country as being "across the ditch".

ghItlhta' ghunchu'wI',
> The Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand is known as "the ditch"

vaj jIyaj! ...and here I was searching Wikipedia's article on Abel Tasman for references to ditches, and wondering if the "ditch-eridoo" was a Tasmanian instrument :P

HIvqa' taSmanya' veqlargh!
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