[Tlhingan-hol] {warjun} {tlher} je

[Terrence Donnelly]

As I recall, they only ever called him Lumpy, mostly because he hated the nickname.

-- ter'eS

--- On Tue, 3/20/12, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:

From: Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] {warjun} {tlher} je
To: "tlhingan-hol at stodi.digitalkingdom.org" <tlhingan-hol at stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 2:00 PM

Was Wally’s friend Clarence ever referred to by the short form “Clar(e)”?  Wally did refer to “the Beaver” as “Beave” or “the Beave” on occasion IIRC,  --VoraghCa'Non Master of the Klingons    From: lojmIt tI'wI'nuv [mailto:lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:53 PM

  Even so, that's six disyllable verbs out of what I count as 908 non-derivative verbs. That's 902 monosyllabic verbs. That's a pretty strong trend. So, when wanting to make a verb meaning "lumpy" out of Clarence Rutherford's name, there's pressure to call it {tlher} and not {tlherenSe'}, since that would create the first trisyllable verb in the language, and the concept of being lumpy is just not important enough to be that exceptional.    On Mar 19, 2012, at 10:08 PM, André Müller wrote:On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Terrence Donnelly wrote:

> Lumpy's sister was named Violet. I don't know if there was a Claire on that show.
>
> -- ter'eS
>
> --- On Mon, 3/19/12, Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] {warjun} {tlher} je
>>>> --- On Mon, 3/19/12, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca>
>> wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know the pun behind {tlher}?
>>>
>>> I can't remember whether it was the Beaver or his big
>>> brother, but one of them had a pal named Lumpy.
>>>
>>
>> The Beaver's big brother, Wally, had a friend named Clarence
>> Rutherford, who was nicknamed Lumpy. His little sister, who
>> was in Beaver's class, was named Claire.
>>
>> -- ter'eS

  
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