[tlhIngan Hol] Ooh la la, a pun!

[Steven Boozer]

AFAIK not used in a sentence.

(qepHom 2025<https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/En/NewWordsQepHom2025>, p. 32):  Informally, you can use {megh'an<https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/Megh-an>} and {'er'In<https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/-er-In>} for the two poles of a planet. More scientifically, the term for "pole" is {SIq'ang<https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/SIk-ang>}”

SEE ALSO:
yuQ                       planet (n)
qo'                         world (n)
ghor                      surface (of planet) (n)
ghaptal               equator (n)

Quv                       coordinates (n)
ngotrI'                 latitude (n)
lungrI'                  longitude (n)
ngotrI'tal            parallel (n)
lungrI’gal            meridian (n)

The request for {SIq’ang} was: "Both north and south pole of Earth as well as north and south pole of a magnet"

ALSO FROM qepHom 2025:
tuy’wI’ Dop        north pole [on a magnet] (n)
rem’wI’ Dop      south pole [on a magnet] (n)

Den<https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/Den>                       attract (of a magnet) (v) [qepHom 2024)
peQnagh<https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/PeQnagh>             magnet (n) [qepHom 2016]

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Voragh

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From: James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2025 12:36 AM

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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