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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tlhorghHa'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon May 12 10:19:37 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 14:19:28 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, May 10, 2014
>
> Klingon word: tlhorghHa'
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be bland (referring to food)
KGT 85: To the Klingon palate, the best food tastes {tlhorgh} ("pungent", though some non-Klingons may prefer to translate the word as "rank" or "gamey")... The opposite of {tlhorgh} is {tlhorghHa'}, conventionally translated as "bland" but literally meaning "unpungent", the implication being that the natural punch has somehow been taken out of the food as a result of how it was prepared. The same ideas are often expressed idiomatically. When talking about the quality of a dish, one may say ... {jejHa' pach} ("The claw is dull"; in other words, the food is bland, where {jejHa'} [dull] really means something like "de-sharpened").
KGT 42: the normal way to describe bland food is to call it {tlhorghHa'} ("not pungent"). In the past, the word {jot} was used in this sense, though now its meaning has changed to "be calm". An upper-class diner will, from time to time, still describe food as {jot} ... Among the lower classes-except for those working as servants for the higher classes-words like {HajDob} and {tu'lum} are known but seldom used, and words like {jot} and {ru'} are used only in their modern senses.
Similar words:
non be rotten (v)
ngIm be putrid (v)
rogh ferment (v)
ragh decay (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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