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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Salt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Mon Jul 1 20:49:08 2013
From: "Robyn Stewart" <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
In-Reply-To: <ACF6622D959A8842A81E4471BA56A7E001F551E1@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 18:48:29 -0600
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
<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:sboozer@uchicago.edu]
Sent: July 1, 2013 7:17 AM
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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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