[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: qop
Ed Bailey
bellerophon.modeler at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 09:28:23 PDT 2016
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Anthony Appleyard <
a.appleyard at btinternet.com> wrote:
> From {qop} resembling the English word "cop", likely it means arrest that
> a policeman/etc does, not as in e.g. "A course of a new antibiotic arrested
> the progress of the infection.".
>
If you want to argue it that way, it would be a double pun for {qop} to
mean "arrest" in the general sense but never in the special sense of what
police do, and MO seems to relish multiple puns.
~mIp'av
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