[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: DavHam

[De'vID]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 11:26, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 10.01.2019 um 11:10 schrieb De'vID:
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 16:00, Klingon Word of the Day <kwotd at wizage.net
> > <mailto:kwotd at wizage.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 09, 2019
> >
> >     Klingon word: DavHam
> >     Part of speech: noun
> >     Definition: false honor
> >     Source: HQ (12:3 p9)
> >
> >
> > Could this be a reference to the photographer David Hamilton? (Point
> > against: this word was revealed in 2003 and accusations against him
> > didn't become public until 2016.)
>
> I always thought it may be related to its backwards spelling: {maHvaD}
> but I did not think further about it.
>

Well, {mIl} (which was revealed in the same article) is a reference to a
person (Richard Milhous Nixon), so it only makes sense that {DavHam} is
also a reference to a person.

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De'vID
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