tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 22 12:17:18 1997
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Re: Some more jokes in KGT
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>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 20:45:57 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
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>And has anyone noticed {qegh} yet? And when one makes a mistake
>(oops) making dinner, the diner responds: 'up Soj. And one
>drinks one's adversary under the table with shots of baqghol.
>And when a girl gets her first jInaq, does she say, {jInaQ!}?
>'ej DIron Dachu'laHbe' joqqu'be'chugh joQ.
Maybe 'up for upchuck? :)
Some weird ones that hit my head (they may or may not have gone through
Okrand's, but that doesn't matter)...
raS ... eye-pun on tabula rasa?
Suy' ... a pig-like animal, and the stereotypical pig-call? (someone else
might be able to explain this better).
'In ... almost definitely not the origin, but a mnemonic for me: in Hebrew,
the word {`inbal} means the clapper of a bell.
Hee... a tongue-twisted to rival the qep'a' creations: consider "the eggs
are superior, the milk in inferior." "nIv QIm, QIv nIm" Say that a coupla
times fast.
Oh, there must have been other things I meant to say... They'll come to
me.
>I enjoyed his evolution for raktajino, and I feel certain there
>are many other delights awaiting. It's clear that puns come to
>this man like epileptic seizures.
I remember he and I actually were discussing raktajino while he was working
on the book, as soon as we both found out that it was Klingon coffee (I'd
always thought it was Bajoran). He really hated the -ino ending, since it
sounded too obviously like cappuccino, and said he'd have to check with
Maltz about "raktaj"... (Seqram re-reads his old email files...)
Ah... Hee, and I had the theory that the Klingon wasn't "raktaj" or
whatever, but actually "raktajin" and the -o was added by marketers for
similarity with Terran brews. Why "raktajin"? Because it was brewed from
{raHta'}, making it {raHta'jIn}. Of course, our luck, if he'd said that,
the next episode we'd hear about some blight of the raktajino trees on
Kronos (so maybe it just *tasted* like {raHta'}). But since he didn't go
that route, I can tell y'all (I probably would have told if he had done it
too). It was a fun thought.
~mark
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