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

Russ Perry Jr. russperryjr at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jul 24 11:57:09 PDT 2016


Ha ha, way to over-think it I guess...  Or maybe I just have Uma on the brain (we do share a birthday, after all).

HIvqa' veqlargh!

Russ

On Jul 24, 2016, at 5:27 AM, Robyn Stewart wrote:
> More likely to Petaluma, California.
> 
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> And possibly this one:
> 
> 'uma' n. petal
> 
> ...is a reference to Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy?
> 
> On Jul 23, 2016, at 9:25 AM, nIqolay Q 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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