[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tawleHnu' pogh

James Landau savegraduation at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 5 08:29:29 PST 2023


>Steven Boozer sboozer at uchicago.edu 
 >Thu Jan 5 07:16:20 PST 2023 

>

>PUN:  “Read it backwards, and figure out the transliterated word that's been inserted into the middle of >another word to split it into two parts.” (ghunchu’wI’, 1/03/2022)
>
>Maybe I'm from the wrong generation but I don't see the pun.  
*Hel* in a *ghop 'unwat* = Hell in a handbasket, as in "Our little world is going to Hell in a handbasket".
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