[Tlhingan-hol] More new words from Maltz
Agnieszka Solska
agnpau1 at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 27 01:32:29 PST 2012
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. That is, wejwa', being "three one",
: is really 31. So what's the connection of 31 to "flavor" or
: "taste"? 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.
:
: 1) Start with the original word: QemjIq
:
: 2) Reverse it: qIjmeQ
:
: 3) Translate it by parts: "black", "burn".
:
: 4) Put the parts together: "blackburn"
:
: 5) Now recall the lyrics to the old Beatles song, "A Day In
: The Life":
:
: I read the news today, oh boy
: Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
:
: And this is how you get from QemjIq to "hole".
'ISqu'
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