Link to the Facebook group for those wondering where it is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LearnKlingon/ Thank you to Chris for hosting the poll, and for posting this so quickly; I was ready to go to bed and wait for the morning, but I'm glad I didn't have to! Can't wait to share these tomorrow :) And, of course, a big thank you to Marc for really hitting this one out of the park! I really couldn't have imagined we'd be getting words from six different categories, and so many of them! ________________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of Lieven <levinius@gmx.de> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 23:44 To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] New words at the qep'a' It seems like most Klingonists from this list are at the qep'a', so they have no time write about it, so 'll just report what I just saw. On Facebook, qurgh has posted images of new words revealed, and there are really tons of them. I'm so happy to see these. I can't post them now, but I just thought that anyone not attending the qep'a' should know about this great news. I'm sure they'll arrive here soon. There are six main topics about which we've learned interesting vocab: - Weather - Time - Household - Science - Vegetation - Body functions mu'meyvammo' jIQuchchu'! -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org

There are a lot of good puns in this group of words. Here's the ones I've found: (Pun spoilers follow, if you're concerned about that sort of thing.) {qImroq} "season". Backwards, it's {qormIq}. McCormick is a US brand of food seasonings. {roSghaH} "DNA". {roS ghaH} = "he licks" = "helix" {HanDI'} "cell". "Handy" is German slang for a cell phone. {lerup} "bacterium, bacteria". Backwards, it's {purel}. Purell is a brand of anti-bacterial hand sanitizer. {javtIm} "virus". This one took some thinking. {jav} = 6 = VI in Roman numerals, {tIm} = Tim Russ, who played Tuvok. So virus = VI + RUSS = {jav} + Tim = {javtIm} {DeSwar} "closet, cabinet, etc". {DeS} = arm, arm + {war} = armoire. {bo'voD} "drawer". "Drawers" is also a slang term for underwear, and BVD is a brand of men's underwear. {turmIq} "urine". Reversing the syllable order gives {mIqtur}. Micturate is a synonym for urinate. On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:39 AM, nIqolay Q <niqolay0@gmail.com> wrote:

{buy' ngop!} Thanks for posting this. ({roSghaH} is a real groaner of a pun, I love it.)

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se> wrote:

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Link to the Facebook group for those wondering where it is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LearnKlingon/

Thank you to Chris for hosting the poll, and for posting this so quickly; I was ready to go to bed and wait for the morning, but I'm glad I didn't have to! Can't wait to share these tomorrow :)

And, of course, a big thank you to Marc for really hitting this one out of the park! I really couldn't have imagined we'd be getting words from six different categories, and so many of them! ________________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of Lieven <levinius@gmx.de> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 23:44 To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] New words at the qep'a'

It seems like most Klingonists from this list are at the qep'a', so they have no time write about it, so 'll just report what I just saw.

On Facebook, qurgh has posted images of new words revealed, and there are really tons of them. I'm so happy to see these. I can't post them now, but I just thought that anyone not attending the qep'a' should know about this great news. I'm sure they'll arrive here soon.

There are six main topics about which we've learned interesting vocab: - Weather - Time - Household - Science - Vegetation - Body functions

mu'meyvammo' jIQuchchu'!

-- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org

Some puns that I found (some of these might not be intended by Marc Okrand, but can still serve as mnemonic devices): Petal {'uma'} - Petaluma is a town in California Particle {pay'an} - pions are subatomic particles Rainbow {Har'ey} - the song 'Over the Rainbow' from the Wizard of Oz was written by *Har*old Arlen and *E.Y.* Harburg. and perhaps the most obscure (or far-fetched and unlikely): Doorknob {jI'ev} - Visualizing a doorknob, I wondered how this word could contain a pun. The talking doorknob from Disney's classic 1951 film Alice in Wonderland - of course! In the same way that 'neSlo' contains the voice actor (Moroni Olsen) for the magic mirror in Snow White, maybe the voice actor for the doorknob is hidden in this new word! ... a quick trip to IMDB and the doorknob is voiced by... Joseph Kearns. Wait, I know that face - Joseph Kearns played Mr. Wilson in the late '50's Dennis the Menace tv show. And who played Dennis the Menace against Joseph 'Doorknob' Kearns's Mr. Wilson? Child actor Jay North! ...and how might the name "Jay North" be 'translated' into Klingon? {jI'ev}! - Tad On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:43 PM, nIqolay Q <niqolay0@gmail.com> wrote:

There are a lot of good puns in this group of words. Here's the ones I've found:

(Pun spoilers follow, if you're concerned about that sort of thing.)

{qImroq} "season". Backwards, it's {qormIq}. McCormick is a US brand of food seasonings. {roSghaH} "DNA". {roS ghaH} = "he licks" = "helix" {HanDI'} "cell". "Handy" is German slang for a cell phone. {lerup} "bacterium, bacteria". Backwards, it's {purel}. Purell is a brand of anti-bacterial hand sanitizer. {javtIm} "virus". This one took some thinking. {jav} = 6 = VI in Roman numerals, {tIm} = Tim Russ, who played Tuvok. So virus = VI + RUSS = {jav} + Tim = {javtIm} {DeSwar} "closet, cabinet, etc". {DeS} = arm, arm + {war} = armoire. {bo'voD} "drawer". "Drawers" is also a slang term for underwear, and BVD is a brand of men's underwear. {turmIq} "urine". Reversing the syllable order gives {mIqtur}. Micturate is a synonym for urinate.

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:39 AM, nIqolay Q <niqolay0@gmail.com> wrote:

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{buy' ngop!} Thanks for posting this. ({roSghaH} is a real groaner of a pun, I love it.)

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se> wrote:

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Link to the Facebook group for those wondering where it is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LearnKlingon/

Thank you to Chris for hosting the poll, and for posting this so quickly; I was ready to go to bed and wait for the morning, but I'm glad I didn't have to! Can't wait to share these tomorrow :)

And, of course, a big thank you to Marc for really hitting this one out of the park! I really couldn't have imagined we'd be getting words from six different categories, and so many of them! ________________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of Lieven <levinius@gmx.de> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 23:44 To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] New words at the qep'a'

It seems like most Klingonists from this list are at the qep'a', so they have no time write about it, so 'll just report what I just saw.

On Facebook, qurgh has posted images of new words revealed, and there are really tons of them. I'm so happy to see these. I can't post them now, but I just thought that anyone not attending the qep'a' should know about this great news. I'm sure they'll arrive here soon.

There are six main topics about which we've learned interesting vocab: - Weather - Time - Household - Science - Vegetation - Body functions

mu'meyvammo' jIQuchchu'!

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On Friday 22 Jul 2016 23:30:22 Tim Stoffel wrote:

This could also be a play on Pean(?) an insignificant contributor to a much larger whole. Frequently used in relation to Government.

peon? n : a labourer who is obliged to do menial work

{quSlab} ("bench") makes sense from an in-world perspective, as it includes the syllable {quS} ("chair"). However, I wonder if it could simultaneously be a pun on "slab", which is "a large, flat piece of solid material". ________________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 15:42 To: tlhIngan-Hol Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] New words at the qep'a' On 23 July 2016 at 02:10, Tad Stauffer <tadbot@gmail.com> wrote:

Some puns that I found (some of these might not be intended by Marc Okrand, but can still serve as mnemonic devices): [...] Rainbow {Har'ey} - the song 'Over the Rainbow' from the Wizard of Oz was written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg.

This is brilliant. "Harold Arlen" = "Har A." = {Har'ey} and "E.Y. Harburg" = "E.Y. Har" = {Har'ey}. -- De'vID _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org

ghItlhpu' nIqolay, jatlh:

There are a lot of good puns in this group of words. Here's the ones I've found:

(Pun spoilers ahead here too.) There are a few in there I noticed, but you've picked up on most of them as well. Given the complexity of the "virus" one (which I didn't see), I'm impressed you got it so quickly. Well done also on the DNA one - I got hung up on the initial {roS-}, because one of the scientists who played a key role in the discovery of DNA's structure was *Ros*alind Franklin. Another one is {yomIj} "neutron" which, when spelled backwards, is {jImoy} "beloved Jim" - or "Jimmy", as in "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius". And {'oynot} "flesh" surely can't be anything but a Shakespearean reference: spelled backwards again, it becomes {tonyo'} - that is, Antonio, the eponymous Merchant of Venice from whom the moneylender Shylock sought his "pound of flesh". QeS 'utlh

Is {'InSong} because flowers are in songs? Or is that too obvious? :-P -QISta' On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 8:25 AM, nIqolay Q <niqolay0@gmail.com> wrote:

I found another one:

{Suntay'} "pollen", sounds like (ge)sundheit. Pollen makes a lot of

people sneeze.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Rhona Fenwick <qeslagh@hotmail.com>

wrote:

...

ghItlhpu' nIqolay, jatlh:

...

There are a lot of good puns in this group of words. Here's the ones

I've found:

...

(Pun spoilers ahead here too.)

There are a few in there I noticed, but you've picked up on most of them

as well. Given the complexity of the "virus" one (which I didn't see), I'm impressed you got it so quickly. Well done also on the DNA one - I got hung up on the initial {roS-}, because one of the scientists who played a key role in the discovery of DNA's structure was *Ros*alind Franklin.

...

Another one is {yomIj} "neutron" which, when spelled backwards, is

{jImoy} "beloved Jim" - or "Jimmy", as in "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius". And {'oynot} "flesh" surely can't be anything but a Shakespearean reference: spelled backwards again, it becomes {tonyo'} - that is, Antonio, the eponymous Merchant of Venice from whom the moneylender Shylock sought his "pound of flesh".

...

QeS 'utlh

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QuD N insurrection QuD V be_dried_up be dried up is QaD, not QuD, and it is not a new word. - Qov

And possibly this one: 'uma' n. petal ...is a reference to Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy? On Jul 23, 2016, at 9:25 AM, nIqolay Q wrote:

I found another one:

{Suntay'} "pollen", sounds like (ge)sundheit. Pollen makes a lot of people sneeze.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Rhona Fenwick <qeslagh@hotmail.com> wrote:

ghItlhpu' nIqolay, jatlh:

...

There are a lot of good puns in this group of words. Here's the ones I've found:

(Pun spoilers ahead here too.)

There are a few in there I noticed, but you've picked up on most of them as well. Given the complexity of the "virus" one (which I didn't see), I'm impressed you got it so quickly. Well done also on the DNA one - I got hung up on the initial {roS-}, because one of the scientists who played a key role in the discovery of DNA's structure was *Ros*alind Franklin.

Another one is {yomIj} "neutron" which, when spelled backwards, is {jImoy} "beloved Jim" - or "Jimmy", as in "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius". And {'oynot} "flesh" surely can't be anything but a Shakespearean reference: spelled backwards again, it becomes {tonyo'} - that is, Antonio, the eponymous Merchant of Venice from whom the moneylender Shylock sought his "pound of flesh".

QeS 'utlh

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Ha ha, way to over-think it I guess... Or maybe I just have Uma on the brain (we do share a birthday, after all). HIvqa' veqlargh! Russ On Jul 24, 2016, at 5:27 AM, Robyn Stewart wrote:

More likely to Petaluma, California.

-----Original Message----- From: tlhIngan-Hol [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org] On Behalf Of Russ Perry Jr. Sent: 23 July 2016 23:50 To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] New words at the qep'a'

And possibly this one:

'uma' n. petal

...is a reference to Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy?

On Jul 23, 2016, at 9:25 AM, nIqolay Q wrote:

...

I found another one:

{Suntay'} "pollen", sounds like (ge)sundheit. Pollen makes a lot of people sneeze.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Rhona Fenwick <qeslagh@hotmail.com> wrote:

ghItlhpu' nIqolay, jatlh:

...

There are a lot of good puns in this group of words. Here's the ones I've found:

(Pun spoilers ahead here too.)

There are a few in there I noticed, but you've picked up on most of them as well. Given the complexity of the "virus" one (which I didn't see), I'm impressed you got it so quickly. Well done also on the DNA one - I got hung up on the initial {roS-}, because one of the scientists who played a key role in the discovery of DNA's structure was *Ros*alind Franklin.

Another one is {yomIj} "neutron" which, when spelled backwards, is {jImoy} "beloved Jim" - or "Jimmy", as in "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius". And {'oynot} "flesh" surely can't be anything but a Shakespearean reference: spelled backwards again, it becomes {tonyo'} - that is, Antonio, the eponymous Merchant of Venice from whom the moneylender Shylock sought his "pound of flesh".

QeS 'utlh

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So far the most out-there interpretation I've come up with is {'ut'at} -> "tattoo" backwards -> the character on Fantasy Island named Tattoo -> played by Herve Villechaize -> who was also Nick Nack in The Man With The Golden Gun -> knickknacks (ornamental trinkets) are often placed on top of someone's {'ut'at} That's ridiculously convoluted, though. (Perhaps Marc got a chest tattoo recently...?) On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca> wrote:

Marc was surprised that we got javtIm and bo'voD, and strongly implied that 'ut'at was a hard one.

- Qov

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On Jul 24, 2016, at 11:57, "Russ Perry Jr." <russperryjr@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Ha ha, way to over-think it I guess... Or maybe I just have Uma on the brain (we do share a birthday, after all).

HIvqa' veqlargh!

Russ

...

On Jul 24, 2016, at 5:27 AM, Robyn Stewart wrote: More likely to Petaluma, California.

-----Original Message----- From: tlhIngan-Hol [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org] On Behalf Of Russ Perry Jr. Sent: 23 July 2016 23:50 To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] New words at the qep'a'

And possibly this one:

'uma' n. petal

...is a reference to Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy?

...

On Jul 23, 2016, at 9:25 AM, nIqolay Q wrote: I found another one:

{Suntay'} "pollen", sounds like (ge)sundheit. Pollen makes a lot of people sneeze.

...

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Rhona Fenwick <qeslagh@hotmail.com> wrote:

ghItlhpu' nIqolay, jatlh:

...

There are a lot of good puns in this group of words. Here's the ones I've found:

(Pun spoilers ahead here too.)

There are a few in there I noticed, but you've picked up on most of them as well. Given the complexity of the "virus" one (which I didn't see), I'm impressed you got it so quickly. Well done also on the DNA one - I got hung up on the initial {roS-}, because one of the scientists who played a key role in the discovery of DNA's structure was *Ros*alind Franklin.

Another one is {yomIj} "neutron" which, when spelled backwards, is {jImoy} "beloved Jim" - or "Jimmy", as in "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius". And {'oynot} "flesh" surely can't be anything but a Shakespearean reference: spelled backwards again, it becomes {tonyo'} - that is, Antonio, the eponymous Merchant of Venice from whom the moneylender Shylock sought his "pound of flesh".

QeS 'utlh

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nIqolay, that is very, very out there! But I wonder if it may be half right - at least, with the Hervé Villechaize connection. In the UK, and thence in my native Australia, another reasonably common word for a chest of drawers is a lowboy (originally from "low" plus a bastardised English pronunciation of French /bois/ "wood"). Hervé Villechaize, who played Tattoo, was only 3'10" in height at the time of his death, and he was thus a particularly short man... or a low boy. I'm not sure if I should be ashamed of making that connection. QeS 'utlh