(thanx, M*lani*!)


"...first of all, thanks for setting up the Klingon Wikipedia..."


"Turkish has two words each for 'white' and 'black.' 'White' is the native ak, or beyaz from the Arabic, while 'black' is the native kara, or siyah from the Persian...the borrowed words are used literally, while the native words are used metaphorically..." --G*offr*y L*wis, in: Imp*rial L*gacy ed L Carl Brown (1996)


"The last citation of the word 'to refurbish' in the Oxford English Dictionary is dated 1874. It was brought back from the dead in February 1969 by Mr Walter H Annenberg...on television, talking to the Queen [of England] and telling her that the Embassy was being refurbished. The quaintness of the word caught the public imagination and since then it has once again become current English."
--footnot*, loc cit


"...a haiku poem in three languages:...

jaghpu' yuQmeyDaq
no'Homchaj tuHqu' Sopbej
gharghHommeyna' tun.

ˆCe malamikoj--
Vermetoj certe manˆgas
Hontajn praulojn.

On our foes' homeworlds--
Soft little worms surely eat
Their ashamed forebears."

--Victor Medrano


"Which makes sense, in a pervy Elf fancier sort of way."