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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/6/2020 12:05 PM, Will Martin
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cite="mid:76449B3C-4E18-499C-A832-C555A4371628@mac.com">This is
one of the first Klingon words I memorized. I thought that bird
dung that drops on me is still dung when it’s above me, but if I
toss a coin and it hits the pavement and makes the noise “bing”,
it doesn’t matter how high I toss the coin. It doesn’t “bing”
until it’s below me.</blockquote>
<p>These words are one of those linguistic jokes in Klingon. In
English, front vowels tend to represent <i>up</i> while back
vowels tend to represent <i>down.</i> They're even called <i>high</i>
pitch and <i>low</i> pitch. In Klingon, this is reversed.<br>
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