[Tlhingan-hol] birds (was Re: Klingon Bird-of-Prey Haynes Manual)

[Christopher Kidder-Mostrom]

cha'par ... is a pun on Jazz Musician Charlie Parker who was known as "The
Bird" and had a bar called Birdland.


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> De'vID
> > *{cherwItlh} - I've never heard of this, where is it from?
>
> *cherwtl* [sic], a type of bird native to Klinzhai (from the pro-novel
> _Dwellers in the Crucible_).  This was coined before Okrand gave us so many
> bird names and occasionally shows up in some fan fiction.
>
>
> > Does anyone know the puns behind these ones?
>
> I don't know them all, but here's what I have in my notes...
>
> > {cha'naS} - a small bird which digs up bugs to eat
>
> 1. National Audubon Society? (NAS)
> 2. *nasnas* ("Another variety of Nasnas, having the wings of a bat,
> inhabits the island of Raij (perhaps Borneo) at the edge of the China
> seas." (
> http://www.hum.au.dk/romansk/borges/vakalo/zf/html/body_the_nasnas.html)?
>
> > {cha'par} - a bird notes for its song
>
> Spanish *parpar* "quack" (the sound made by a duck).  (Okrand speaks
> Spanish; indeed his 1977 Ph.D. dissertation "Mutsun Grammar" was primarily
> based on Spanish documents.)
>
> > {lotlhmoq} - a bird that swoops into the water in order to catch food,
> > but cannot swim
>
> Possibly not a pun.  It first appeared in Keith R.A. DeCandido's _Enemy
> Territory_ as a "predatory bird native to Qo'noS that swoops into the water
> to catch food".
>
> > {yatqap} - a grey (sometimes white) bird that can travel particularly
> > long distances without pausing
>
> "I thought of swallows - some of them are migratory. How about the first
> syllable of Capistrano? The Swallow was a famous yacht of the late 19th and
> early 20th century; its custom-built boat house Swallow's Nest still stands
> at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire." (ghunchu'wI')
>
>
> --
> Voragh
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>
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