tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 28 04:34:27 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] More new words from Maltz
'ISqu':
>
> Talking of puns... Qanqor seems to have worked out the origins of
> {wejwa'} and {QemjIq}:
>
>> (1) "flavor" or "taste" (nouns) is wejwa'.
>
> Qanqor:
>
> : The joke is similar in structure to Hutvagh in that a number is
> : spelled out by its digits. That is, wejwa', being "three one",
> : is really 31. So what's the connection of 31 to "flavor" or
> : "taste"? There is a large, famous chain of American ice cream
> : shops called Baskin-Robbins, and their slogan has long been
> : "31 Flavors".
As an interesting coincidence, now {'awje' wejwa'} is an almost-palindrome.
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