[Tlhingan-hol] Dr Pepper [was Re: Klingon Word of the Day: qo'la' 'awje']

[David Trimboli]

On 5/21/2012 3:52 AM, Michael Roney, Jr. PKT wrote:
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> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:01 AM, qurgh lungqIj<qurgh at wizage.net>  wrote:
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>> Klingon word: qo'la' 'awje'
>> Part of speech: noun
>> Definition: cola (coke)
>
> Next, does this introduce a new Terran food construction pattern for us to use?

Not really. It's really more of a continuation of a Star Trek (and other 
SF) tradition of naming something with a combination alien name English 
name to make it at once alien and familiar. For instance, when Evil Kirk 
demands Saurian brandy from McCoy, you know at once it's both alcoholic 
and alien (or at least foreign).

The TalkNow! terms do this from the Klingon point of view. They relate 
an alien (Human) food with something familiar to Klingons, and attach an 
English label to it to make it alien. Human soft drinks in general 
remind Klingons of {'awje'}, so the kind called in English "cola" gets 
rendered {qo'la' 'awje'}.

But it's not a general rule. You can't extrapolate and determine what 
Klingons *would* say about something, although if we lack a Klingon term 
for a Human food it's probably safe to coin your own words. But it 
remains *your* coinage, not something Klingons would necessarily recognize.

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