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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] More new words from Maltz
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Agnieszka Solska)
Fri Jan 27 04:32:42 2012
From: Agnieszka Solska <agnpau1@hotmail.com>
To: tlhIngan Hol <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>, tlhIngan Hol mailing list
<tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:32:29 +0000
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Talking of puns... Qanqor seems to have worked out the origins of =
{wejwa'} and {QemjIq}:
> (1) "flavor" or "taste" (nouns) is wejwa'.
Qanqor:
: The joke is similar in structure to Hutvagh in that a number is =
: spelled out by its digits.=A0 That is, wejwa', being "three one", =
: is really 31.=A0 So what's the connection of 31 to "flavor" or =
: "taste"?=A0 There is a large, famous chain of American ice cream =
: shops called Baskin-Robbins, and their slogan has long been =
: "31 Flavors".
> (4) "hole" (like a hole in the ground) is QemjIq.
Qanqor:
: We must apply a slightly-larger-than-usual number of Okrandian
: transformations.
:=A0 =
: 1) Start with the original word:=A0 QemjIq
:=A0 =
: 2) Reverse it:=A0 qIjmeQ
:=A0 =
: 3) Translate it by parts:=A0 "black", "burn".
:=A0 =
: 4) Put the parts together:=A0 "blackburn"
:=A0 =
: 5) Now recall the lyrics to the old Beatles song, "A Day In =
: The Life":
:=A0 =
:=A0=A0=A0 I read the news today, oh boy
:=A0=A0=A0 Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
:=A0 =
: And this is how you get from QemjIq to "hole".
'ISqu'
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