[tlhIngan Hol] voD and mu'qaD veS

Lieven L. Litaer levinius at gmx.de
Mon Oct 15 11:20:21 PDT 2018


Am 15.10.2018 um 19:58 schrieb Felix Malmenbeck:
>  > This use of the English words screw and drill are idiomatic.
> 
> Indeed. It's rather telling that the expression does not survive 
> translation into Swedish, which is basically just English with a few 
> extra vowels.
As another example, in German the slang term for "mate with" is not 
"screw", it's "nail".

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Lieven L. Litaer
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"
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