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Re: Klingon WOTD: mIQ (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jan 22 17:55:39 2008
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:53:14 -0600
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, January 21, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: mIQ
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: deep-fry
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 93. If heat is used as part of food preparation, the cook is most
>likely to {mIQ} ("deep-fry") the food. This involves first acquiring
>{tlhagh} ("animal fat") from any available source and then heating it up
>so that it boils (the general word for "boil is {pub}, but the verb used
>specifically to refer to the boiling of fat is {'Im} ["render"]). After
>it has been boiling for a while, the food to be fried is tossed in
>(sometimes having been coated in some kind of paste), and it stays there
>until it has soaked up as much of the {tlhagh} ("fat") as possible. A
>particularly popular dish, {tlhombuS}, requires that the cook coat a block
>of {tlhagh} with a mixture of {ngat} ("herbed granulated cartilage") and
>{tIr} ("grain") and then briefly immerse the block into the already
>boiling fat, just until the coating hardens.
>
>KGT p. 93. Experienced cooks will {mIQ} ("fry") the {DIghna' por}
>("[digna] leaf"), though this is risky, since if the leaf is heated for
>too long, it will wilt.
Used in canon:
to'waQ mIQ vutwI'
The cook deep-fries the tendon. KGT
Pun alert:
"Marc nodded, smiling infuriatingly, to confirm {mIQ} ("deep fry") as in
{mIQ}-Donald's french fries." (Qov at qep'a' loSDIch)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
