Klingon Word of the Day: paQjen
Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, January 16, 2025 Klingon word: paQjen Part of speech: noun Definition: sequin, spangle Source: qep'a' 31 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh@kli.org).
Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, January 16, 2025 Klingon word: paQjen Part of speech: noun Definition: sequin, spangle Source: qep'a' 31 [20224] _______________________________________________ AFAIK not used in a sentence. This is the standard form. PUN: (James Landau): Backwards, this is {nej Qap} -- "seek-win" (qepHom 2024): There is also a slang version: {HovHom}. PUN: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky." (children's song) SEE ALSO: naghboch gemstone (n) boch shine, be shiny (v) bar blink, flash (v) ghon sparkle, glitter (v) nar reflect (v) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol < tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, January 16, 2025
Klingon word: paQjen Part of speech: noun Definition: sequin, spangle Source: qep'a' 31 [20224] _______________________________________________
AFAIK not used in a sentence. This is the standard form.
PUN: (James Landau): Backwards, this is {nej Qap} -- "seek-win"
(qepHom 2024): There is also a slang version: {HovHom}.
PUN: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky." (children's song)
What's the connection of "twinkle twinkle little star" to the things above? -- De'vID
{HovHom} = a “little star”-- twinkly and shiny like a sequin or spangle. Voragh ____________________________________________________________________ From: De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2025 2:04 AM On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol wrote: Klingon word: paQjen Part of speech: noun Definition: sequin, spangle Source: qep'a' 31 [20224] _______________________________________________ AFAIK not used in a sentence. This is the standard form. PUN: (James Landau): Backwards, this is {nej Qap} -- "seek-win" (qepHom 2024): There is also a slang version: {HovHom}. PUN: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky." (children's song) What's the connection of "twinkle twinkle little star" to the things above? -- De'vID
On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol < tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
{HovHom} = a “little star”-- twinkly and shiny like a sequin or spangle.
Well, yes, I get that {HovHom} is "little star". What I didn't get was how that is a "pun", or how sequins are connected to the song. -- De'vID
Though not actually mentioned in the song, sequins and spangles are little, shiny, twinkly jewel-like things – “like a diamond in the sky”. Perhaps not a pun per se, but it is suggestive. It would certainly make a good mnemonic. -- Voragh From: De'vID via tlhIngan-Hol Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2025 4:37 PM On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org<mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org>> wrote: {HovHom} = a “little star”-- twinkly and shiny like a sequin or spangle. Well, yes, I get that {HovHom} is "little star". What I didn't get was how that is a "pun", or how sequins are connected to the song. -- De'vID
ghItlh De'vID: Well, yes, I get that {HovHom} is "little star". What I didn't get was how that is a "pun", or how sequins are connected to the song. It was Okrand who connected HovHom to paQjen, saying it was a slang version. He may have simply been thinking that sequins can appear to be little stars. But he might have thought how they twinkle and connected it through the song. Occam's razor would indicate it is more likely just that he thought they looked like little stars.
nuqneH! How are you? Anyway I like the emails!! Qapla’! Sent from my iPhone On 23 Jan 2025, at 1:31 pm, janSIy . via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote: ghItlh De'vID: Well, yes, I get that {HovHom} is "little star". What I didn't get was how that is a "pun", or how sequins are connected to the song. It was Okrand who connected HovHom to paQjen, saying it was a slang version. He may have simply been thinking that sequins can appear to be little stars. But he might have thought how they twinkle and connected it through the song. Occam's razor would indicate it is more likely just that he thought they looked like little stars. _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org
De'vID, it you don't think it's an actual pun stricto sensu, think of it as a mnemonic. It is after all slang, which nobody is forced to use, though one does have to recognize when {HovHom} means "sequin" and not something like "dwarf star". (BTW do we have an astronomical word for this yet?) Voragh ______________________________________________________________________________ From: janSIy . via tlhIngan-Hol Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 8:31 PM ghItlh De'vID:
Well, yes, I get that {HovHom} is "little star". What I didn't get was how that is a "pun", or how sequins are connected to the song.
It was Okrand who connected HovHom to paQjen, saying it was a slang version. He may have simply been thinking that sequins can appear to be little stars. But he might have thought how they twinkle and connected it through the song. Occam's razor would indicate it is more likely just that he thought they looked like little stars.
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