tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 06 21:36:31 1999
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Re: canon words
ja'pu' Pillow:
>Has anyone compiled a list of these words?
I'm sure several people have extensive "joke-word" lists, but they're
typically not shared.
ja' Voragh:
>We all generally compile our own or annotate the dictionary. While many
>people have suggested posting and maintaining a list of puns on the KLI
>website similar to charghwI's list of post-TKD words, the consensus on the
>list is that this would spoil the game for new members. Discovering a new
>pun, or figuring out what the pun must be for words that sound suspicious,
>is part of the fun we get by playing with the language.
Besides, having an "official" pun list would tend to spoil the fantasy of
this being a language with real native speakers. And some of the apparent
jokes can't be confirmed -- Okrand claims convincingly not to remember if
he did some of them intentionally.
>So as you notice
>them, feel free to share them with the list. You may just notice one the
>rest of us have missed - which does happen from time to time.
Indeed, one of them exploded in our face when a few of us were lunching
together at qep'a'. {tlher} "lumpy" seems to have a Leave it to Beaver
connection.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh