tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 05 07:17:59 2007
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Re: Klingon WOTD: mum (verb)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, July 4, 2007.
>
>Category: Food
>
>Klingon word: mum
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: taste, sense flavors
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 86. The verb {mum} ("taste") means "sense flavors." To say {Soj
>vImum} ("I taste the food") is to say "I perceive a flavor or flavors,"
>not "I try out the food to see if it is prepared properly." This latter
>meaning of "taste" is expressed by the verb {waH}, which can also be used
>more generally to mean "try out, test, use experimentally."
Another verb, {mum}, means "taste" in the sense of "perceive flavor(s)".
qagh vImum
I taste the gagh ("I perceive the gagh's flavor")
(msn.onstage.startrek.expert.okrand 7/01/97)
The usual Federation Standard translations of the primary tastes (pungent,
sour, salty) are a little deceptive. From the Klingon point of view, it is
not accurate to say that a particular food is sour; rather, it tastes and
smells sour. That is, sourness is not an intrinsic quality of the food; it
is a perception, the effect the food has upon the senses of smell and taste,
the Klingon sense of smell being particularly highly developed. Translations
such as "sour-inducing" ({Soj wIb}, "sour-inducing food"; {na' Soj}, "The
food induces saltiness") would perhaps be closer to the feeling of the
Klingon, but they are a bit clumsy." (KGT 85-86)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons