On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 7:46 PM Hugh Son puqloD <Hugh@qeylis.net> wrote:
> On Aug 2, 2022, at 18:17, James Landau <savegraduation@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> yI'De' (cervid-like animal): Rearranging the phonemes, you get *DI'ye'* (deer). Or, alternatively, SIR-vid (a play on "sir")? Because *yI'* means "to speak in an honorable fashion". But then, what does data have to do with -vid?
There is a certain Klingonist whose name has an association between the last syllable of yI'De' and the last syllable of cervid.
I didn't get the message from James Landau: is there a problem with the mailing list?
Anyway, I think the pun is considerably simpler: yI'De' is the answer for the request "cervinoid, deerlike or mooselike animal". The dog on the TV show Frasier was named Eddie (yI'De' backwards) and was played by a dog named... Moose.