[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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