tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 08 08:06:36 1997
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Re: vaj KLBC
>Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 22:24:21 -0700 (PDT)
>From: [email protected]
>
>In a message dated 97-05-07 22:24:04 EDT, SuStel answers peHruS:
>
><< What, to you, is the difference between "dining room" and "banquet hall"
>that
> one and not the other should correspond to a particular Klingon phrase?
> Formality? What makes {'uQpa'} more formal than {Sojpa'}? Something else?
> >>
>
>What if we discover from MO that {Sojpa'} actually means "pantry"? Of
>course, until he says so, I won't claim that it could only mean "pantry." I
>am merely stating that I had thought some time back about using {'uQpa'} for
>"dining room." Personally, I still like it.
That's a very good point; I thought of it too. Sojpa' makes a lot of sense
as "pantry." Perhaps the odd thing about "'uQpa'" is that is sort of
implies that DINNER is eaten there, but not lunch or breakfast (or ghem).
I could believe that as an idiom, though (though we have no basis for it:
perhaps the main meal for Klingons, after which the room would be named, is
lunch, or breakfast, or elevenses or ghem).
~mark