Message: 5 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:41:54 -0500 From: nIqolay Q <niqolay0@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Look what the vIghro' (or layyan, or     taygher, or jeghwar) brought in.

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lachvoH  (bee hive) -- Backwards, this is *Hov chal*, starry sky. Perhaps the Beyhive (as in, Beyonc? & Co.) is a "sky full of stars"? Aside from *'ImtIy*, though, Marc Okrand doesn't seem to make puns about twenty-first century pop culture. Or else he would've made the word for "beaver" something like *nItsaj* or *da'ghet*.

MO has made more than a few puns that are apparently about semi-obscure recent television shows (see: *qIr'a'*, *'obray'wal*, *'eQway*), but in this case I suspect it's something more like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_Cluster, a star cluster known since antiquity.

Oh, the Beehive Cluster? Can't say I've heard of it, but that looks as if it's it. I've never been able to figure out *'obray'wal*. Does some TV show have a lawyer character named Beau Scorpio?

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waDwach (scarf) -- Backwards this is "chow down" -- the OTHER meaning of "scarf".

*maj. vIparHa'.*

Me too! (However exactly a Klingon would say that!)

I'm having trouble with some of the other new words so far, although while we're on the subject of puns, here's one I found recently: *rober* - axis. The Axis Powers in WWII were originally known as the "Rome-Berlin Axis"

Oh -- good one! I was stuck on thinking there was some connection with the French pronunciation of Robert. Now we can insult people with: "qaytu'pu'lI' qach DISDaq bIDab!" BTW, I looked up Max Unger, and it turns out that's the real name of an athlete. From someone who inspired a word for bee/wasp, you'd think he was playing for the Charlotte /Hornets/, but there's no mention of that in his Wikipedia article.