[tlhIngan Hol] New words at the qep'a'
Robyn Stewart
robyn at flyingstart.ca
Sun Jul 24 20:17:54 PDT 2016
Marc was surprised that we got javtIm and bo'voD, and strongly implied that 'ut'at was a hard one.
- Qov
> On Jul 24, 2016, at 11:57, "Russ Perry Jr." <russperryjr at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tlhIngan-Hol [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces at lists.kli.org] On Behalf Of
>> Russ Perry Jr.
>> Sent: 23 July 2016 23:50
>> To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
>> Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] New words at the qep'a'
>>
>> 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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