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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Salt

Robyn Stewart ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

<tlhIl na'> works pretty well. While many minerals other than NaCl have
salty flavours, they are also called salts in English. Barring a Klingon
periodic table, you won't be able to describe it any more specifixally.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Boozer [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: July 1, 2013 7:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Salt

Fiat Knox:

> Klingons clearly do not use condiments on their {tlhagh patat 'oQqar 
> naQHommey}. But is there a word for the {tlhIl} that Terrans known as 
> salt?

AFAIK there's nothing from Maltz, but the pre-KGT Klingon Bible Translation
Project used *{Sojqut}.  This may well be moot as apparently Klingons don't
add salt to their food (at least not as a condiment):

KGT 100:  When the food arrives, it should be eaten as is; nothing
equivalent to a saltshaker will be found on a Klingon dining table.

There is of course the quality {na'} "be salty, be brackish":

KGT 85-86:  Klingon food also frequently tastes {wIb} (sour, bitter) or
{na'} (salty, brackish). The closest equivalent to sweet is probably {na'ran
rur} ("resembles a naran," a fruit whose juice is sometimes added to sauces
as a contrast to the other flavors). ... 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 96:  Often, however, there is no {Qenvob} [ground-up, dried-up mixture
for brewing tea]; the tea is made by simply picking thorns, leaves, petals,
or seeds off of a plant and immediately immersing them in the water. Usually
brackish water ({bIQ na'}) is best.



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons


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