Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 01:05:29 +0200 From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> To: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@kli.org> Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] qep'a' 2021 new word puns
On Tue., Jul. 27, 2021, 02:39 James Landau, <savegraduation@yahoo.com>>>wrote:
HuDngech (sine) -- sounds like Chengdu backwards, although I'm not sure what Chengdu has to do with sine waves -- perhaps the prefix Sino- for Chinese?
You're overthinking this. {HuD} and {ngech} are the words for mountain and valley. Oh, so it wasn't even a pun, just a (relatively) straightforward derivation. I don't have the words *HuD* and *ngech* in my working vocabulary yet, so I didn't notice this.
ngur (to be autistic/Aspie) -- maybe "nerd"?
Ngurodivergent.
Bazinga! Think you've nailed it. Would "autism" or "Asperger's" be "HarqIn ngur" (or *ngurbogh HarqIn", perhaps?), to use one of my requests from the 2020 qep'a'? "Aspies" would be *ngurwI'pu'*, I believe.
yelneHSIQ (vanadium) -- backwards, this is Chris Henley -- anyone have any idea who Chris Henley is? Googling "'chris henley' vanadium" doesn't help.
Chris Henley is a friend of Marc Okrand and used to work with him at WSC Avant Bard. I don't know why Okrand chose Henley's name for vanadium, but he's honoured various people in his life with Klingon words not necessarily related to their names over the years, so there might be no connection to vanadium at all. Thanks for the explanation! I googled "'chris henley' 'marc okrand'" after you told me that, but even then, I just got 4 Google hits. They were about WSC Avant Bard, though. (Heh, Avant Bard, reminds me of the surname of the latest National Spelling Bee champion, Avant-garde.)