tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 07 14:05:10 2000
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Re: some puns...
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- Subject: Re: some puns...
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 17:04:38 -0500 (EST)
Carleton Copeland wrote:
> BTW, if you ever tire of the hunt, compare your catch with an old master
> list of jeux de mots at
> </tlhIngan-Hol/1997/Feb97/0136.html>. There are whole
> classes of these--like "reversies"--of which I was ignorant.
*URL-vam vISuchlaHbe'law', *website choHlu'bejmo'. HIDjolev vIlo'
'ej February 1997 jabbI'ID tlhegh vIlaD. mu'mey law' mungqoq vIHon.
[<lIm> vIlaDDI', "out on a limb" vIQub je. 'ach Qub'a' *MO? vIHarbe'.]
There is one obvious (to me) "begins with"-type pun that I didn't see
mentioned. <quS> "chair" from "cushion". [There's another that may not
have been intentional, but when I see <lav> "shrub", I think "lavatory"!
Probably more a testament to my own sense of humour than to MO's.]
> > Do you have an apprenticeship position open for a P'un Master?
>
> You do seem to have the gift. mu' qID pIn vanjaj Hoch!
jIqID neH!
tlhIngan Hol jatlhlu'taHvIS, chay' "pre-mature" jatlhlu'!! "pun"mey
puS neH vISov.
> qa'ral
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