6 May
2020
6 May
'20
12:22 p.m.
On 5/6/2020 12:05 PM, Will Martin wrote:
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.
These words are one of those linguistic jokes in Klingon. In English, front vowels tend to represent /up/ while back vowels tend to represent /down./ They're even called /high/ pitch and /low/ pitch. In Klingon, this is reversed. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name