Then call it a borrowed word or, if you prefer, a transcribed localism (as most foreign geographical names tend to be - although it’s sometimes tricky to recognize them). Personally I think of them as mnemonics. Of course, {barat} would be a pun if it were Klingon for “cheap” (i.e. Spanish *barato*). However you classify them, recognizing them makes it easy, or at least easier, to remember. __ Voragh ______________________________________________________ From: De'vID via tlhIngan-Hol Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2023 10:19 AM On Fri, Sept 22, 2023, 16:49 Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org<mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org>> wrote: Klingon word: barat Part of speech: noun Definition: India Source: TalkNow - Learn Klingon!, revealed 30 September 2011 _______________________________________________ PUN: *Bharat Ganarajya* The word "pun" has been stretched on this mailing list to mean not just a joke based on words with different meanings that sound alike, but to any joke in the vocabulary at all, but this is surely not even that. The names of Earth countries in Klingon are frequently their names in one of its native or official languages, which is exactly what "Bharat" is. It's neither hidden nor intended to be a joke.