[tlhIngan Hol] New words at the qep'a'

[Tad Stauffer]

Some puns that I found (some of these might not be intended by Marc Okrand,
but can still serve as mnemonic devices):

Petal {'uma'} - Petaluma is a town in California

Particle {pay'an} - pions are subatomic particles

Rainbow {Har'ey} - the song 'Over the Rainbow' from the Wizard of Oz was
written by *Har*old Arlen and *E.Y.* Harburg.

and perhaps the most obscure (or far-fetched and unlikely):
Doorknob {jI'ev} -
Visualizing a doorknob, I wondered how this word could contain a pun. The
talking doorknob from Disney's classic 1951 film Alice in Wonderland - of
course! In the same way that 'neSlo' contains the voice actor (Moroni
Olsen) for the magic mirror in Snow White, maybe the voice actor for the
doorknob is hidden in this new word! ... a quick trip to IMDB and the
doorknob is voiced by... Joseph Kearns. Wait, I know that face - Joseph
Kearns played Mr. Wilson in the late '50's Dennis the Menace tv show. And
who played Dennis the Menace against Joseph 'Doorknob' Kearns's Mr. Wilson?
Child actor Jay North! ...and how might the name "Jay North" be
'translated' into Klingon? {jI'ev}!

- Tad


On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:43 PM, nIqolay Q <niqolay0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are a lot of good puns in this group of words. Here's the ones I've
> found:
>
> (Pun spoilers follow, if you're concerned about that sort of thing.)
>
> {qImroq} "season". Backwards, it's {qormIq}. McCormick is a US brand of
> food seasonings.
> {roSghaH} "DNA". {roS ghaH} = "he licks" = "helix"
> {HanDI'} "cell". "Handy" is German slang for a cell phone.
> {lerup} "bacterium, bacteria". Backwards, it's {purel}. Purell is a brand
> of anti-bacterial hand sanitizer.
> {javtIm} "virus". This one took some thinking. {jav} = 6 = VI in Roman
> numerals, {tIm} = Tim Russ, who played Tuvok. So virus = VI + RUSS = {jav}
> + Tim = {javtIm}
> {DeSwar} "closet, cabinet, etc". {DeS} = arm, arm + {war} = armoire.
> {bo'voD} "drawer". "Drawers" is also a slang term for underwear, and BVD
> is a brand of men's underwear.
> {turmIq} "urine". Reversing the syllable order gives {mIqtur}. Micturate
> is a synonym for urinate.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:39 AM, nIqolay Q <niqolay0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> {buy' ngop!} Thanks for posting this. ({roSghaH} is a real groaner of a
>> pun, I love it.)
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm at kth.se> wrote:
>>
>>> Link to the Facebook group for those wondering where it is:
>>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/LearnKlingon/
>>>
>>> Thank you to Chris for hosting the poll, and for posting this so
>>> quickly; I was ready to go to bed and wait for the morning, but I'm glad I
>>> didn't have to! Can't wait to share these tomorrow :)
>>>
>>> And, of course, a big thank you to Marc for really hitting this one out
>>> of the park! I really couldn't have imagined we'd be getting words from six
>>> different categories, and so many of them!
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces at lists.kli.org> on behalf of
>>> Lieven <levinius at gmx.de>
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 23:44
>>> To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
>>> Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] New words at the qep'a'
>>>
>>> It seems like most Klingonists from this list are at the qep'a', so they
>>> have no time write about it, so 'll just report what I just saw.
>>>
>>> On Facebook, qurgh has posted images of new words revealed, and there
>>> are really tons of them. I'm so happy to see these. I can't post them
>>> now, but I just thought that anyone not attending the qep'a' should know
>>> about this great news. I'm sure they'll arrive here soon.
>>>
>>> There are six main topics about which we've learned interesting vocab:
>>> - Weather
>>> - Time
>>> - Household
>>> - Science
>>> - Vegetation
>>> - Body functions
>>>
>>> mu'meyvammo' jIQuchchu'!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lieven L. Litaer
>>> aka Quvar valer 'utlh
>>> Grammarian of the KLI
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