[Tlhingan-hol] Month sentences

[Steven Boozer]

That’s why I like these two puns:  they’re clever, not too obvious (as the questions in this thread indicate), and apt (since phases of the moon relate to months).

Voragh

From: lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com [mailto:lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 10:23 AM

After a New Moon (the dark one), when the moon’s phase is increasing the size of the illuminated part of the moon each night, it is “waxing”. It continues to wax until a full moon, after which it “wanes”. So, the phases are typically called:

New Moon
Waxing quarter
Waxing gibbous
Full Moon
Waning gibbous
Waning quarter
New Moon

This falls under “Stuff I learned from an iPad app”.

On Feb 26, 2015, at 5:36 PM, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca<mailto:robyn at flyingstart.ca>> wrote:

Yes, I have waQ and wen in the sentences, but you’ll have to explain the puns for me. I’ve been saying them over and over again and nothing twigs. I think I initially remembered ‘way back when’ and ‘a whack of time from now’.

- Qov

From: Steven Boozer [mailto:sboozer at uchicago.edu]
Sent: February 26, 2015 6:36

 Robyn Stewart:
> Here’s what I have so far to retrain the Hub system on “month.”...
I don’t remember if you mentioned it before, but don’t forget to add {waQ} and {wen}  to the mix:
IMO, HQ 8.3:  Another pair of words of this type refers to months: {wen} “months ago”, {waQ} “months from now”. Thus, {loSwen} is “four months ago” and {wa'waQ} is “next month” (one month from now).
They’re two of my favorite Okrandian puns/mnemonics.

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