tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 08 09:35:06 2000
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Re: Klingon WOTD: lang (v)
- From: TPO <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: lang (v)
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:33:36 -0400 (EDT)
>peHruS:
>: ... do we have a word for "thin" as in "the soup is thin."
>: Of course, there is {jeDbe'}.
>
>"Not thick/dense/viscous". Or {jeDHa'} if the soup's been diluted. Why would
>anyone want to do that? Klingon soup is normally thick (probably closer to
>what we would call stew):
>
> "If the particular dish is somewhat soupy (a dish of this kind is
> termed a {chatlh}, roughly translated as "soup", though the amount
> of liquid is far less than what the Federation Standard term "soup"
> would suggest)... Since this sort of dish is still primarily solid
> food as opposed to liquid, using the verb {tlhutlh} ("drink") to
> describe ingesting it is not quite right. There is another verb,
> {'ep}, which refers to eating food of this kind." (KGT 99f)
>
>
>Also consider {puj} "be weak", especially in the simile {puj; bIQ rur} "weak as
>water" from KGT. So, one might say of soup that's too thin:
>
> puj chatlhvam 'up; bIQ rur. va, DatlhutlhlaH!
> This disgusting soup is as weak as water. You can actually *drink*
> the stuff!
>Voragh
In the word list (KGT) we also have stew
soup (thick)(n) - chatlh
stew (n) - tlhIq
So, perhaps to say that the soup is thin, call it stew.
DloraH