21 Mar
2019
21 Mar
'19
9:47 a.m.
On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 15:45, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
va, jIHagh! <ghopDap> vIghItlhHa’ba’. (Not unusual for me; I often miss-type “the” as “teh” in English!)
I’ve often wondered if there’s a pun there although I can’t think of what it could be: [ghop} hand + {Dap} nonsense ?
I wonder if Okrand has ever played the handheld ({ghopDaq}) version of the Asteroids video game? However, I suspect that {chunDab} is somehow related to {ghopDap}, but I have no ideas about {chunDab}. -- De'vID