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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks for checking. Now I know when the next person asks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> tlhIngan-Hol [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org]
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span class="gmail-">Klingon word: peD</span><br>
<span class="gmail-">Part of speech: verb</span><br>
<span class="gmail-">Definition: snow, fall slowly (like snow)</span><br>
<span class="gmail-">Source: TKD, qepHom 2017</span><br>
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peDtaH 'ej chIS qo'<br>
(Dutch magazine "Oor", Nov-Dec 2011, p.39: "Fifty Words for Snow" by Kate Bush)<br>
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[Someone refresh my memory: Was this example supplied by Okrand?]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For ages I thought it was just some random unknown Klingonist, but apparently it was Okrand after all!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">[Update, 11/24: Marc Okrand confirms via email that he indeed is the source of the Klingon line. He explains that
<i>peDtaH 'ej chIS qo'</i> means "It's snowing and the world is white." Okrand is thanked in the liner notes (with the Klingon expression of gratitude,
<i>qatlho'</i>).]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3558">http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3558</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As for Stephen Fry's pronunciation of the line in the actual song... well, he's gonna want to bring his universal translator if he ever visits Qo'noS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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