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Re: Klingon WOTD: qompogh (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



> >>> 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.



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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