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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 24, 2019, at 2:27 PM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/24/2019 2:13 PM, Will Martin
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<div class="">At the next qep’a’, we told this story to Okrand and
we all laughed, and as it got quiet after, he grinned and
quietly said, “Well, of course, you know that there really is a
Klingon word for ‘armpit’, right?”</div>
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<div class="">We were all astonished and wide-eyed fell for it,
hook, line, and sinker as he said, “The word is, {‘I’}.”</div>
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<div class="">And… so, it became canon with a wave of his magic
wand. We had a great laugh and got a new word. Poof.</div>
</blockquote><p class="">I always feel it necessary to offer my alternative memory of the
event.</p><p class="">Recall first that this was Okrand's first qep'a', and we were
under strict orders not to pressure him for new words or
clarifications. He was very uncomfortable with the idea of
appearing in front of the group, and we were supposed to not scare
him off.<br class="">
</p><p class="">We were gathered around a circle, with those toward the center
sitting in chairs and the rest of us standing around the
periphery. Okrand was near the middle, because we'd sort of
accumulated around him. Some people were telling funny stories of
conversations that had happened on the list, and the story of <b class="">'I'</b>
had come up. I was watching Okrand as the story was being told, by
Seqram, I believe, and it was clear to me that he wasn't quite
following it. When Seqram finished, and everyone was laughing,
Okrand, still seeming confused, asked something like, "Wait, what
is the word for armpit?" It was a very quiet question.<br class="">
</p><p class="">We couldn't take it anymore. As one, everyone in that group
leaned forward and laughed, replying, in various words, "Yeah!
What IS the word for armpit?"</p><p class="">And then it clicked for him that <b class="">'I'</b> wasn't a real
Klingon word, and that's why the story was funny. Okrand,
completely deadpan, paused for just a moment and said, just as
quietly, "<b class="">'I'.</b>"</p><p class="">The room exploded in laughter.</p>
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