tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 02 15:16:22 1997
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Some more puns
- From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
- Subject: Some more puns
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 18:11:55 -0400
qoror here. Here's a few puns you probably noticed years ago, and
two I'm sure you never noticed.
The first few: the verb {jaw} (as in "jaw away"), {jIH} (like
German "ich"), and {He}. I think that in Chinese, "he" means "river." I
know absolutely no Chinese, but I noticed that from "Huang He," "Yellow
River." If it hadn't been capitalized I probably wouldn't have noticed it.
Now two you haven't noticed: {Hew} is undoubtedly from our verb
"hew," and one that personally convinces me that this man has no shame. We
just discovered that {natlh} is slang for "be disgusting, reprehensible."
Have you ever noticed that "consume, use up" resembles "suck"?
Qapla'
qoror