<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Steven Boozer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
PUN: <br>
"Bobby Pickett's classic novelty song Monster Mash was released in 1962 on Garpax Records. {tlhapragh} backwards is {gharpatlh}, which is almost a transliteration of Garpax. I say 'almost' because 'x' is usually transliterated as {Q}, not {tlh}. Maybe Okrand wanted to mix it up a little." (nIqolay Q, 12/12/2017)</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I later remembered that "x" is the "xifan hol" character for {tlh}. boQwI' (which I'm pretty sure MO uses) has it as an option to make searches easier to type on a phone, giving MO a powerful new technique for making puns.<br></div></div></div><br></div></div>