[tlhIngan Hol] Ooh la la, a pun!

[sustel trimboli.name]

I don’t have enough information to make the connection.

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Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] Ooh la la, a pun!

I just deciphered my first pun of the 2025 qepHom:


At first, I puzzled over *SIq'ang*, the word for the pole of a planet.


Nothing forward comes to mind. So let's look at it backwards: *nga'qIS*.


There is no word that's just plain *nga'*, at least not in canon. But I realized that *nga'chuq* is "have sex". And *qIS* has a similar
meaning: "be libidinous".


Then it hit me: it's a reference to _Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn_ by Henry Miller!
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