Timeline for In the Discworld books, is "Sto Helit" a pun?
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| Jun 16, 2022 at 23:50 | answer | added | Renovator99 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 0:21 | comment | added | Zvezdochka | The first time we meet Susan is this "Susan Sto-Helit was sitting up in bed, reading by candlelight". In slavic languages it sounds like "100-watt-bulb" because it's like "100 suns/helios". Maybe there is sarcasm in comparison with "candlelight". | |
| Jun 8, 2022 at 14:09 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | I legitimately considered writing it that way but I decided that clarity was more important than in-jokes. | |
| Jun 8, 2022 at 4:18 | comment | added | CodeRedick | Don't you mean pune, or play on words? | |
| Jun 7, 2022 at 10:37 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 5, 2022 at 11:06 | comment | added | manabreak | @Valorum and a native Finnish speaker here begs to differ as well. | |
| Jun 5, 2022 at 6:24 | comment | added | Valorum | @manabreak - Google Translate begs to differ... | |
| Jun 5, 2022 at 4:41 | comment | added | manabreak | @Valorum "helit" is not a Finnish word, it doesn't mean anything besides "Heli" being a somewhat common woman's name, and -t suffix is for plurals. | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 11:50 | vote | accept | Darth Pseudonym | ||
| Jun 2, 2022 at 16:20 | history | edited | Darth Pseudonym | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2022 at 15:09 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: -6 | |
| Jun 2, 2022 at 15:05 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | Sto Helit is "tile hots" backwards. Sto Lat is "ta lots" backwards. Sto Plains are "snial pots" backwards. So all those names included common English words when written backwards. Is that a clue to possible puns? | |
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| Jun 2, 2022 at 11:49 | comment | added | Tonny | @Valorum Didn't think of keurig (even with you mentioning "neat", which is the correct translation). Probably because keurig has a long vowel and both kerrig and karig are shorter vowels that are closer together in pronunciation. | |
| Jun 2, 2022 at 11:36 | comment | added | Valorum | @Tonny - Keurig is the closest I could find | |
| Jun 2, 2022 at 11:28 | comment | added | Tonny | @Valorum Kerrig isn't Dutch. Maybe you are confusing it with Karig which is Dutch for meager/poor/barely sufficient (depending on context). | |
| Jun 2, 2022 at 7:11 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jun 2, 2022 at 6:59 | comment | added | Valorum | The audiobook has it as "hellitt". | |
| Jun 2, 2022 at 6:35 | comment | added | Valorum | Helit means sound in Finnish. Kerrig means neat in Dutch. Lat means years in Polish. I'm not seeing any theme here. | |
| Jun 2, 2022 at 6:31 | comment | added | Valorum | It's one of the principle cities of the Sto plains along with Sto Lat and Sto Kerrig. I'm not seeing a pune here. | |
| Jun 2, 2022 at 4:50 | comment | added | b_jonas | The Annotated Pratchett File doesn't seem to know the origin. lspace.org/books/apf/mort.html | |
| Jun 2, 2022 at 4:40 | history | asked | Darth Pseudonym | CC BY-SA 4.0 |