[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: qol'om

[Steven Boozer]

Thanks for the correction and the more likely pun.  Although not having heard of Coloma, Gollum makes a better mnemonic for me.

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Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2024 5:57 AM

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 3:55 PM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org<mailto:tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org>> wrote:
Klingon word: qol'om
Part of speech: noun
Definition: gold (element)
Source: qepHom 2015 p.13
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PUN: Gollum? ("I thought of gold as a precious metal. Who else likes precious things more than he should?" [nIqolay Q])

Also, misattributed? This seems to have been postulated by André Müller, in a message dated Oct. 30, 2015. (nIqolay Q replies to and quotes that message the next day.)

Coloma, California, was the originating site of the California Gold Rush:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloma,_California<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloma,_California__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!4IVdZ66UiuSlV2I1T53g7RdFO7aCL21Ckv0POTuePx-FCrc6m8X7w32pnu5eCOng_iKLqE3b888bGHZwbHwPhwrBElk$>

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De'vID
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