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<p>Not to dispute your analysis necessarily...<br>
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pa'nItlh (aisle): "Clean up" backwards. As in the PA
announcement: "Josh, clean up aisle 24!"<br>
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<p>I thought of this more as "room-finger"; an aisle being sort of a
long extended room/empty space (but that would be a hallway?)<br>
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poH (session, shift): "Hop"-ing from one employee's shift to
another.<br>
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<p>I feel this is a coincidence, since the other meaning of "poH"
(time) is perfectly sensible here, and this is just informing us
that the meaning extends to this.<br>
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teb (compensate, monetarily): "Bet" backwards.<br>
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<p>Same with this. The ordinary meaning "fill" makes sense as a
metaphoric use for compensation.<br>
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'abched (vitamin): Vitamins A, B, C, D, and E.<br>
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<p>Yeah, that was so obvious even I noticed it.<br>
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'erQen (phrase): "Phrase" os a homophone of "frays". *Qen*
means to be naked, like a frayed object. "Er" is the German
word for "he", which suggests that it's the form of a verb
you'd use with "he", i.e. the third person singular present.
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<p>Not particularly, but it doesn't have to be. There doesn't
*have* to be a pun basis for every word, but that doesn't mean
it's wrong to find one. Even if what you find is totally not what
Okrand had in mind and is purely a figment of your imagination, it
can still be a useful mnemonic, if it works for you.</p>
<p>~mark<br>
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