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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr">>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 01:05:29 +0200<br></div><div dir="ltr">>From: "De'vID" <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>To: tlhIngan-Hol <<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@kli.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tlhingan-hol@kli.org</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] qep'a' 2021 new word puns<br></div><div><br></div><div>>>On Tue., Jul. 27, 2021, 02:39 James Landau, <<a href="mailto:savegraduation@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">savegraduation@yahoo.com</a>></div><div dir="ltr">>>wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> HuDngech (sine) -- sounds like Chengdu backwards, although I'm not sure<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> what Chengdu has to do with sine waves -- perhaps the prefix Sino- for<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> Chinese?<br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>You're overthinking this. {HuD} and {ngech} are the words for mountain and<br></div><div dir="ltr">>valley.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Oh, so it wasn't even a pun, just a (relatively) straightforward derivation. I don't have the words *HuD* and *ngech* in my working vocabulary yet, so I didn't notice this.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>>ngur (to be autistic/Aspie) -- maybe "nerd"?<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Ngurodivergent.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Bazinga! Think you've nailed it.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Would "autism" or "Asperger's" be "HarqIn ngur" (or *ngurbogh HarqIn", perhaps?), to use one of my requests from the 2020 qep'a'?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">"Aspies" would be *ngurwI'pu'*, I believe.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>yelneHSIQ (vanadium) -- backwards, this is Chris Henley -- anyone have any<br></div><div dir="ltr">>idea who Chris Henley is? Googling "'chris henley' vanadium" doesn't help.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Chris Henley is a friend of Marc Okrand and used to work with him at WSC<br></div><div dir="ltr">>Avant Bard. I don't know why Okrand chose Henley's name for vanadium, but<br></div><div dir="ltr">>he's honoured various people in his life with Klingon words not necessarily<br></div><div dir="ltr">>related to their names over the years, so there might be no connection to<br></div><div dir="ltr">>vanadium at all.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks for the explanation! I googled "'chris henley' 'marc okrand'" after you told me that, but even then, I just got 4 Google hits. They were about WSC Avant Bard, though. (Heh, Avant Bard, reminds me of the surname of the latest National Spelling Bee champion, Avant-garde.)<br></div></div></div></div></body></html>