<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM SuStel via tlhIngan-Hol <<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org">tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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<div dir="ltr">jIltob'or (classic): This is "your robot"
backwards, but does anyone get how this ties in with the
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<div>{tob} "test" and {'or} "pilot" = "test pilot"? There is a
classic movie (starring Clark Gable) named "Test Pilot", but I
can find no connection to anyone named "Jill".</div>
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<p>I'd be more inclined to think of the film Tobor the Great, though
I can make no connection with the {jIl} part.</p></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe "Jill Tobor" is just someone's name that Okrand knows. Maybe this is a reference to the same {jIl} as "neighbour", and the origin of {jIltob'or} is an in-joke between them. </div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>