[Tlhingan-hol] qepHom students wish list

[Michael Roney, Jr.]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Rohan Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ghItlhpu' naHQun, jatlh:
> > So, we don't have a specific term for "cookie", but we have
> > a specific term for a specific type of cookie?
>
> But {bIQyIn} isn't a specific term for a specific type of cookie. It's a
specific term for a specific type of {chabHom}. The fact that it happens to
be similar to certain types of what we refer to as cookies (well, I refer
to them as biscuits, but let's not get into that) is irrelevant for the
Klingon language. We don't know exactly what a {bIQyIn} is, but it's a fair
bet it's not all that similar to a sandwich cookie in anything but shape.
(Remember that {tera' 'awje'} can refer to root beer, where {'awje'} proper
is made of bone marrow and probably has no resemblance to root beer in
anything but appearance.) Calling sandwiched cookies of all sorts {tera'
bIQyIn} should get your meaning across pretty neatly, I'd think, regardless
of whether a {bIQyIn} itself has filling or not.


Yeah, I had a feeling that was the case.
My wife is a pastry chef.
As far as I can tell, everything she makes is a {chab}.
The ability to have more specialized vocabulary in that field would be
useful, to me at least.
I'm fine with {bIQyIn} being a Klingon food. It only makes sense.
But I'm obviously hoping to be able to use it to refer to things I might
actually come across.
I just want to make sure that I start using it correctly so I don't have to
unlearn an incorrect use later.

>
> taH:
> > And still no official word for sandwich...
>
> Do you feel that one is really that necessary?
>

Necessary? No. For better or worse we have {HIlel}.
Useful? Yes.


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~Michael Roney, Jr.
Freelance Translator
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