[Tlhingan-hol] Puns!

[Anthony Appleyard]

Not a pun, but a suspected history, of the word {betleH}:-

The Star Trek scriptwriters invented the bat'telh weapon and its name. Later, Marc Okrand found the weapon and its name already invented, and needed to adapt the name to his tlhIngan Hol. At first he thought to call it an "honor sword" and made the word into the 2 words {{batlh 'etlh}}, and those 2 words remain in separate use. But he later saw that weapon was very diffferent from a sword, and thought again, and invented the word {betleH}.

P.S. Note {HoD} = "captain" // real-world acronym HoD = "head of department"; was that the start of uppercasing some tlhIngan Hol hetters?