[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: re'chIv

[De'vID]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol <
tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:

> Speaking of puns, I spoke with Marc Okrand on Facebook and mentioned some
> of the clever puns he's hidden in recently revealed words. I thought
> *mobIj* for "latch" probably had something to do with "jibboom", but Marc
> said he didn't see a connection between "latch" and "jibboom". Then I
> thought about it more, and noticed how *jIbom* also means "I sing". "I
> sing" sounds like "isinglass" . . . were latches traditionally made with
> isinglass, or put on isinglass windows or used with isinglass curtains?
>

I think what I'm about to describe is very likely a real coincidence (as
in, unintended by Marc Okrand), but an Ising machine is a type of computing
device which uses the Ising model (named after physicist Ernst Ising), and
a latch is a circuit with two stable states, and there are in fact such
things as latch Ising machines, but unless Okrand is *really* into
electronics, I doubt this is the inspiration behind the word. Although, who
knows, maybe he was looking for inspiration and just happened upon the term.

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