[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: qo'la' 'awje'

[Steven Boozer]

Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>> Seems more likely to me, however, that's it's either a case of Okrand
>> forgetting, or somebody (either vavoy or SuSvaj)
>> mishearing/mistemembering. Neither of the options seem super-likely,
>> though, since the accounts are quite detailed (if either vavoy or
>> SuSvaj heard wrong, it seems they didn't just misinterpret a double
>> negative) and the time span was a bit short for Marc to have forgotten
>> such a detailed account (unless the HolQeD article was written long
>> after the actual interview, that is. That HolQeD was from June '97
>> (as far ad I can tell), and qep'a' loSDIch was in July 1997, so it's
>> possible SuSvaj had originally read the HolQeD article, and was then
>> surprised to learn that what he'd learnt was wrong.

Sustel:
> I believe the order of events was:
> 
> 1. We got the word at a qep'a' and understood it as "root beer." Root
> beer was being mentioned occasionally on Deep Space Nine at that time
> as well, usually being explained, tasted, or enjoyed by Ferengi or
> Klingons.
> 
> 2. We got the HolQeD article, which explained that 'awje' wasn't just
> root beer, but a word describing a narrow class of Klingon soft drinks,
> which resembled root beer enough to be typically translated with that
> term.
> 
> 3. We got KGT, which identified 'awje' as a specific beverage, still
> reasonably close to root beer and translated that way.

4. We got {qo'la' 'awje'} in "TalkNow! Klingon" describing a narrow
class of Terran soft drinks - i.e. colas, sometimes called "cokes" by some (much like the brand names "Kleenex", "Xerox" and even "Aspirin" have become generic terms).


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Voragh
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