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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Food
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Mon Oct 31 14:57:46 2011
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: "Michael Roney, Jr. PKT" <nahqun@gmail.com>, tlhIngan Hol mailing list
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:57:18 +0000
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I find Su'ghar qutmey really surprising; I'd've expected a Klingon word referring to sugars in general. Of course, the sugar we have in our kitchen is a fairly specific product which Klingons probably don't use; guess that's why they took the English word.
ghItlhta' naHQun
> Thoughts on a word for "pineapple"?
>*pay'In'epIl naH?
>*pay''epIl naH?
I might recommend *'a'nanaS or the like, since similar words are used in a lot of Earth languages:
http://pics.blameitonthevoices.com/032011/pineapple.jpg
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