tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 02 04:00:29 2005
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Klingon WOTD: Soj qub (noun)
This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, June 2, 2005.
Category: Food
Klingon word: Soj qub
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: haute cuisine
Source: KGT (227 KE, 245 EK)
Swedish: ¿?fin kokonst, sällsynt mat
Additional Notes:
KGT p. 84. A larger animal may be sliced into pieces or a section of a plant may be broken off. This food is often described as {Soj tlhol} ("raw, unprocessed food"), as opposed to {Soj vutlu'pu'bogh} ("food that somebody has prepared"). What makes the food {tlhol} is not that it has not been heated but rather that no one has done anything to it; thus, "unprocessed" might be a better translation than "raw." On the other extreme is {Soj qub}--literally "rare food, uncommon food" but used as the Klingon equivalent of haute cuisine, food usually served only on the most formal of occasions.
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