tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 31 22:23:14 1997
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RE: Language jokes show English speaking bias...
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Language jokes show English speaking bias...
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 97 02:44:28 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Robyn Stewart wrote:
> People seem to want a list of joke words or possible joke words or
> words with silly mnemonics. Here's an off the top of the head list
> of the ones that occur to me. It includes ones that I have noticed
> and ones other people have pointed out to me. If we post such a
> list it should NOT include the meanings of the words, so people can't
> use the list to make their own dictionaries.
>
> I also heavily anti-recommend memorizing words by cute associations.
> It works at first, but then you have the cute association permanently
> stuck to the word, and it takes you twice as long to think anything,
> because you can't help the mnemonic as well as the real meaning
> coming through your brain.
>
> Klingon word - word reminiscent of - explanation
>
> baS - bash - sound that metal makes when you hit it
> bagh - bag - item sold with twist tie fasteners
> nol - knoll - sound [of] bell signifying death
> mol - mole - animal that digs
> nop - NOP - assembler instruction that represents no operation
> mul - mule - animal known for being stubborn
> qul - cool - opposite
> qaw - cow - female of a species known for remembering
> pIw - pheew - traditional sound said when you smell something bad.
> Saw - sure - woman's response
> nay - nay - man's response
> nov - nova - new
> QonoS - chronos - the journal as a record of time
> waq - whack - think Krushchev
> DaS - das Boot - This one's been doen to death.
> 'IQ - ick - not a happy way to be
> qIl - kill - synonyms in some uses
> qop - cop - arresting officer
> leS - less -doing less
> lom - loam - earth to earth
> tIq - tick - ticker
> ya - Yar - The blond security officer from TNG
> mIy - me - self boosting
> yuch - yuck - opposite
> lab - lob - throw gently
> bey - bay - wolf/dog howl sound
> tIv - fesTIVities - you're supposed to enjoy them
> jaw - jaw - slang meaning talk, in English
> tI - ti - Hawaiian plant
> DIr - deer - animal hunted for its skin
> bang - bang - slang word for 'have sex'
> puq - puke - babies do this a lot ghu - goo - sound attributed to
> English baby babbling mut - mutt - animal of mixed breed
> 'ampas - AMPAS - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Something -
> association knows usually as "The Academy" that gives honorees gold
> statuettes called "academy awards" for execellence in moviemaking.
> mung - monkey - controversial point in Darwin's Origin of Species
> Dung - dung - bird flying overhead
> Qatlh - two of the most difficult consonants
> Dal - dull
> chap - chap - cracked dry skin common here
> chop - chomp
> bIr - sound made when cold (brr) OR drink referred to by its
> temperature (cold one)
> muD - mood - as in "mood lighting adds atmosphere"
> tay - tie - family, cultural, societal ties
> tay' - tie - tying together
> Hat - hot - as in hot car or in high temperature
> van'a' - Vanna White - game show model who presents awards
> Hot - hot - too hot to touch
> lon - lone - Cause to be alone
> mob - mob - opposite
> mon - moan - opposite
> paw' - pow - a collision sound
> HIja' - Hi & ja - words for yes in Japanese and German
> loD - lord
> be' - babe
> 'Iw - eww - sound of disgust
> ghot - goat - a grown up kid
> lot - Lot - man who escaped from a catastrophe in a Bible story
> weQ - wick - string inside a candle
> ghIr - gear - thing you change on a descent
> Sap - sap - sucker
> Sut - suit
> toD - toad - needs kissing to be rescued from evil spell
> ruv - rough - "rough justice" I think it's the name of a Western
> tlham - slam - fall to the ground
> joj - That o is caught between two of the tallest letters (only one
> with both a riser and a descender)
> joy' - Klingons take joy in this activity
> jIl - Jill - Okrand's neighbour
> jIp - gyp - A bad penalty can cheat a team of a goal, and cheating
> will get you a penalty.
> yay - yay - triumphant exclamation
> HeDon - head on - a special case of the parallel course
> lay' - lie - opposite
> lum - loom - what deadlines do
>
> onomatopoiea
> tlhutlh
> tlhuH
> 'oy'
> 'aw'
> ghagh
> voQ
> HIq (a hiccup)
> tlhup
> ghup
>
> probably just me
> moD - There is a band called Depeche Mode and depeche means hurry in
> French.
> tut - Tutankhamen - king of an ancient culture that didn't use
> columns, but which Qov studied in the same grade as she studied Greek
> history.
> Sab - Saab - car my friend once bought for a dollar that
> turned out to be worth at least ten times that
> tuch - reminds me of hand lettered signs on grade 1 art projects: "DO
> NOT TUCH"
>
> I'm sure if you read through the word list and think of the
> pronuncation in English and in Klingon of each entry, you'll find
> plenty more. Better to just associate the sound/word with the
> meaning than to go through an intermediary, though.
>
> Whatever.
>
> - Qov
>
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian