<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr"><div></div>>From: nIqolay Q <<a href="mailto:niqolay0@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">niqolay0@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div id="ydp3c5ea563yahoo_quoted_0005156995" class="ydp3c5ea563yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr">>To: <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' 2022 new words puns<br></div><div>>On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 2:17 AM De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>- *yItQet* "petroleum, crude oil": *boQwI'* currently lists this pun as</div><div dir="ltr"> a reference to "Tikriti", which I think is kind of a stretch. I think the<br></div><div dir="ltr"> more likely pun is *teQ tIy* "Tex tea" = "Texas tea", a slang term for<br></div><div dir="ltr"> crude oil made famous by the opening theme song to the *Beverly<br></div><div dir="ltr"> Hillbillies*.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">::jIruH:: I was the one who added the "Tikriti" explanation into the wiki!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">When I saw the letter Q, I was thinking of kr, since kr often becomes Q in borrowings and puns (like *yelneHSIQ*). How often does ks/x become Q? (I don't have a list before me at the moment). But if crude oil is called Texas tea (a term I had never heard of before), it is a likely explanation. The only mismatch between "teQtIy" and "Tikriti" is that the former has an E between the T and KR, whereas the latter has an I, but there's no mismatch between "teQtIy" and "Tex tea" (assuming, od course, that Q is stanfard for ks).</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Maybe Marc Okrand intended to make both puns at once? With that and this *yI'De'* word, too.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">And BTW, would Internet-speak comments like ::blushes:: or ::cries:: be expressed with jI-, like ::jIruH::? It sounds more accurate than putting the verb into the third person as we do in English, but maybe there's an established rule for this.<br></div>
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