Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:18:04 +0200 From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <levinius@gmx.de> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] qep'a' 2021 new word puns Message-ID: <dedde2de-3aab-1b48-78df-6913cf7b2f99@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed

Am 27.07.2021 um 02:39 schrieb James Landau:

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lIS'ab (rodent) -- like Basil the Rat, from Fawlty Towers

I'm not so sure that rat is so important in that show. My first guess was the same name, from a movie title "Basil the Great Mouse Detective". It might be both, of course.

Oh. I've heard of The Great Mouse Detective, but I didn't recall the protagonist's name being Basil. It could very well be both. Think of *InSep*: at one level, it's just an anagram for "penis", but at another level, it could be said to represent the InSep-tion of a new life.

One other thing, which is not a pun, but a useful background: Maltz said>there are two words for Korea, and this was confusing for Klingons.

The Korean language has two different names for the southern and the northern part. In North Korea, it is called Chos?n, which refers to an ancient kingdom Go-Joseon. See Klingon spelling {choSan}. South Korea is called Hanguk (roughly translated as "Han-Empire"). Klingon spelling {Hanghuq}.

As the definition was given for "Korea" only, it is possible that in the future, the parts are re-united into one country, which explains why Klingons use both terms.

While I was awaiting ALL of the new country names from the chabal tetlh (We can talk about the geography of Asia now! Yay!), I was especially curious about Korea, since there's a North Korea and a South Korea as of 2021, and I wondered how Marc Okrand was going to deal with this. This sounds like the ideal solution! Now we can say *Hanghuq Hol* (or *choSan Hol*) and *Hanghuq Qat QoQ*! And when I was reading over the list of country names, with Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, and Romania added, I was shocked to realize that we don't have a Klingon word for "Mexico" yet!