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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Correction noted. I just realized that {Duq} is a double pun – or maybe it’s an extended pun from “(small) bowl” to “be stunned” and back. People have pointed
out that 1) "duck pins" is a form of bowling with a smaller, hole-less ball and shorter, widely spaced pins; and 2) Norm Duke is a pro-bowler, "the Tiger Woods of bowling".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">To get back to Michael’s question… another way to say “I was bowled over” or “I was dumbfounded” is “You could have knocked me over with a feather.” None of
these are inherently positive or negative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">-Voragh<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"> Felix Malmenbeck<br>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">> PUN: “Or one could say... ‘bowled over’. ({Duq} also means a small bowl.)” (Felix, 7/20/2017)
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I believe this was actually suggested by nIqolay Q, and on the 31st of July (thread:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> qep'a' cha'maH
loSDIch New words and some tidbits</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">); I think I've heard the phrase "bowled over" once or twice, but it isn't something I would've come up with :)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Steven Boozer
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dumbfounded means to be so surprised as to be left speechless, i.e. “dumb” as in the phrase “deaf and dumb”. It’s not inherently positive or negative, but rather
that the surprise or shock is so sudden or profound that it temporarily “discombobulates” you (another good word to look it up in M-W).</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">About the verb {Duq} “be stunned” (also “be astonished, astounded, dumbfounded, shocked”) revealed at qep’a’ 2017:</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(qurgh, 7/29/2017): [Okrand] also said about {Duq} and {yay'}, which have similar meanings, that they are synonyms but {Duq} tends
to be more so than {yay'}.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">PUN: “Or one could say... ‘bowled over’. ({Duq} also means a small bowl.)” (Felix, 7/20/2017)</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">SEE ALSO:</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">mer surprise [someone]</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">mIS be confused, mixed up</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Voragh</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ca'Non Master of the Klingons</span></i><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> mayqel qunen'oS</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">The verb {yay'} is given as "be shocked, dumbfounded".</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">As I read in m-w, the verb "shocked", is usually used for something, which upsets people.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">And as far as the "dumbfounded" goes, I couldn't make sense, whether it has an inherent positive or negative meaning.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">So, does someone know, if {yay'} is to be used only for pleasant or only for unpleasant surprises ?</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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