tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 22 04:19:26 2000
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mu' qID subgenres
- From: Carleton Copeland <[email protected]>
- Subject: mu' qID subgenres
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:19:28 +-300
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A couple *reversies* I've never seen mentioned are yotlh/tlhoy' and
laD/Dal.
Meditating on De'vID's *von/trap*, I realized that it represents an entire
subgenre of Okrandian wordplay in which the Klingon word followed by its
English translation form a meaningful unit:
bas = metal
beb = roof
DaS = boot
DIr = skin
HoS = power
rItlh = dye
von = trap
may = (be) fair
mon = capital (Q-speak)
Another subgenre (by no means a new discovery) is what I call the
"antonymous pun":
e.g., Hop, joy', lay', pup, qul, QaQ, Sub, tIn, yuch, 'IH
Any more candidates?
qa'ral