On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 00:55, Becky Nearing <beckynearing@myself.com> wrote:
On Mon Jun 22 De'viD wrote:
 
>Given that {'InSep} was later revealed, probably not? {loDmach} seems just
>like the kind of thing a Star Trek novelist would make up after consulting
>The Klingon Dictionary.
 
And aside from the obvious anagrammatical aspect, why do you suppose Okrand chose 'InSep? Why not, say, SI'nep or SIn'ep or Sep'In? Is it because a guy and his 'InSep are 'InSep-arable? (Unless, of course, your name is King Missile.)

Some jokes work on multiple levels.

"I kept pushing things. I wanted to go deeper and deeper, I wanted to go… further." - Dominick Cobb, Inception (2010)

If this was intentional, then it's at once both juvenile and brilliant.

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De'vID