[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: retlaw

[kechpaja]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:48:44AM -0500, nIqolay Q wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
> > PUN:
> >  "Walter" backwards (i.e. Walter Dent?)
> 
> 
> ​The ​backwards "Walter" is so obvious that it almost has to be
> intentional, but I haven't been able to find any Internet reference to a
> "Walter Dent" who would be a reasonable inspiration for the pun. A friend
> of Okrand's, maybe? (If only the word were something like {yevraH}, this
> would be easier to solve...) Or maybe it's a {ghotI' Doq}, so to speak, and
> it's actually somehow based on archaic degrees from some time period ago.

Perhaps a dentist? 

It's also possible that he mis-remembered the name of the protagonist of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", which was Arthur Dent. 

Or maybe it's just a coincidence. Every once in a while a suspected pun
turns out to be entirely accidental. 

 - SapIr