tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 21 15:18:23 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: qompogh (noun)
> >>> Klingon word: qompogh
> >>> Definition: type of food
>
> >> Hmm. "qompogh" as in 'compost'? :P
>
> > Maybe more like in the German "Kompott", which is, to my native
> > speaker knowledge, some type of dessert consisting of fruit in
> > its own juice, mainly.
>
>It's in English too, as "compote", which is fruit in syrup.
>
> > If there's a pun intendet, it's probably pretty restrictedly
> > understandable, as meseems "Kompott" to be a regionally
> > restricted - i.e. there where I come from - vocabulary item
> > of German
Hardly. I've had compote both here in the USA and in the old Soviet Union
in the 1970s, where I'm told it was a fairly common desert (and simple to
prepare in mass quantities).
Here's Okrand's explanation from KGT (p. 92)
Finally, the way to prepare a common dish called {qompogh}
is to mash ({tap}) a mixture of various types of {naH}
("fruit, vegetable"), with or without some animal matter,
into a rather lumpy paste and then to let it {rogh}
("ferment").
This is clearly one of his double puns: 1) with "compote" because it's a
mixture of fruit (or vegetables) with or without some meat! and 2) with
"compost" because the organic mixture has to be left to ferment before it's
ready.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons