[Tlhingan-hol] Puns!

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On 31 October 2015 at 01:07, nIqolay Q <niqolay0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's one I noticed earlier:
> {qoch} = squeeze (into a space)
> "Coach" is one name for the cheap seats on an airplane, where passengers are
> often packed together closely.

That makes much more sense than the direction I was going, which was
that "hang" ({ngaH}) and "choke" ({qoch}) were both methods of
strangulation ("squeeze")... :-p

That still leaves {ngaH} to be explained, though.

> There's also this one:
> {SuqSIv} = core (of an apple, planet, sun, but not a group)
> "Viscous" backwards, though I'm not sure what that has to do with cores, so
> I'm not sure it's a pun. (Lately, it seems whenever there's a two-syllable
> noun my first thought is "where's the pun"?)

I also thought "viscous", except that the core of a planet like Earth
isn't viscous. The mantle is, but not the core:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_the_Earth

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