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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Food
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adm qe'San)
Wed Nov 2 18:25:17 2011
From: "Adm qe'San" <qeSan@btinternet.com>
To: "KLI Mailing List" <tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMZYS2VQ_WtEBPPEsT_rZRL64+dVMos7Y0R_miWWTNZ_acPRTg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 22:24:52 -0000
Reply-To: qeSan@btinternet.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Roney, Jr. PKT [mailto:nahqun@gmail.com]
> >> burger - Ha'DIbaH ghIH tIr ngogh je
> >
> > Does anyone have any helpful ideas about why {ghIH} is used here?
> >
> No.
> And frankly I'm disappointed in our word for burger.
> I was really hoping for a word to replace {*HIlel}.
> "messy meat and bread" tells me nothing about how the food is put
> together.
> While I enjoy open-ended terms like {HIvje'}, I'd like to know how to
> describe meat (and other toppings) between two slices of bread.
>
> And what if I'm ordering one of these?
> Do I just keep piling on food nouns?
>
If I wanted to be precise maybe but the word burger is a shortened form of
Burger in a bun which is what the image clearly is.. In day to day usage we
just ask for a burger so I see no reason not to just ask for a Ha'DIbaH
ghIH. If the Terran serving understands that much I'm sure you'd get what
you'd asked for.
qe'San
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