<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr">>Message: 5<br></div><div id="ydp477a38fdyahoo_quoted_9503547986" class="ydp477a38fdyahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr">>Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:41:54 -0500<br></div><div dir="ltr">>From: nIqolay Q <<a href="mailto:niqolay0@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">niqolay0@gmail.com</a>><br></div>>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Look what the vIghro' (or layyan, or<br><div dir="ltr"> taygher, or jeghwar) brought in.<br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> lachvoH (bee hive) -- Backwards, this is *Hov chal*, starry sky. Perhaps<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> the Beyhive (as in, Beyonc? & Co.) is a "sky full of stars"? Aside from<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> *'ImtIy*, though, Marc Okrand doesn't seem to make puns about twenty-first<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> century pop culture. Or else he would've made the word for "beaver"<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> something like *nItsaj* or *da'ghet*.<br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>MO has made more than a few puns that are apparently about semi-obscure recent<br></div><div dir="ltr">>television shows (see: *qIr'a'*, *'obray'wal*, *'eQway*), but in this case<br></div><div dir="ltr">>I suspect it's something more like:<br></div><div dir="ltr">><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_Cluster, " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_Cluster, </a>a star cluster known since<br></div><div dir="ltr">>antiquity.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Oh, the Beehive Cluster? Can't say I've heard of it, but that looks as if it's it.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I've never been able to figure out *'obray'wal*. Does some TV show have a lawyer character named Beau Scorpio?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> waDwach (scarf) -- Backwards this is "chow down" -- the OTHER meaning of<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> "scarf".<br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>*maj. vIparHa'.*<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Me too! (However exactly a Klingon would say that!)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>I'm having trouble with some of the other new words so far, although while<br></div><div dir="ltr">>we're on the subject of puns, here's one I found recently:<br></div><div dir="ltr">>*rober* - axis. The Axis Powers in WWII were originally known as the<br></div><div dir="ltr">>"Rome-Berlin Axis"</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Oh -- good one! I was stuck on thinking there was some connection with the French pronunciation of Robert.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Now we can insult people with:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">"<span>qaytu'pu'lI' qach DISDaq bIDab!"</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">BTW, I looked up Max Unger, and it turns out that's the real name of an athlete. From someone who inspired a word for bee/wasp, you'd think he was playing for the Charlotte /Hornets/, but there's no mention of that in his Wikipedia article.</div></div>
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