[tlhIngan Hol] Ooh la la, a pun!

[Will Martin]

While it’s always possible that it’s just a word made up from a combination of phonemes that had not been combined before, I could also imagine a Klingon trying to teach a child the concept of a planet’s poles by telling the child to hold up a fist.

The parent then says, “That is the planet.”

The parent then places one fist above the planet, palm down and one fist below, palm up, and extends the pinkie of each of these two fists, pointing towards the center of the planet…

{SIq’ang}

pItlh

charghwI’ ‘utlh
(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)




> On Dec 16, 2025, at 10:48 AM, Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:
> 
> 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]
>  
> --
> Voragh
>  
> _________________________________________________________________________________
> 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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