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

Christa Hansberry chransberry at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 11:33:15 PDT 2016


Is {'InSong} because flowers are in songs? Or is that too obvious? :-P

-QISta'

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 8:25 AM, nIqolay Q <niqolay0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I found another one:
>
> {Suntay'} "pollen", sounds like (ge)sundheit. Pollen makes a lot of
people sneeze.
>
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Rhona Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> ghItlhpu' nIqolay, jatlh:
>> > There are a lot of good puns in this group of words. Here's the ones
I've found:
>>
>> (Pun spoilers ahead here too.)
>>
>> There are a few in there I noticed, but you've picked up on most of them
as well. Given the complexity of the "virus" one (which I didn't see), I'm
impressed you got it so quickly. Well done also on the DNA one - I got hung
up on the initial {roS-}, because one of the scientists who played a key
role in the discovery of DNA's structure was *Ros*alind Franklin.
>>
>> Another one is {yomIj} "neutron" which, when spelled backwards, is
{jImoy} "beloved Jim" - or "Jimmy", as in "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius". And
{'oynot} "flesh" surely can't be anything but a Shakespearean reference:
spelled backwards again, it becomes {tonyo'} - that is, Antonio, the
eponymous Merchant of Venice from whom the moneylender Shylock sought his
"pound of flesh".
>>
>> QeS 'utlh
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