On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:08 AM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

Outside of everyday usage, English uses ice to refer to any substance that is normally thought of as non-solid when it has been made solid. We use ice instead of some other word because water is the most common substance that we regularly see become solid; we just apply that word to other substances.

English speakers use it, incorrectly, that way. It's a slang, albeit very common slang. You may use that slang, but some people try to avoid it.

When you have watched someone pick up a chunk of "dry ice" and try to eat it,  thinking it's normal ice, you quickly learn not to use "ice" outside of the water kind.

What do other languages do? I don't remember ice being used this way in Japanese.

 

On the other hand, we have no idea whether Klingon chuch has the same usage or can only refer to solid H₂O.

The gloss is "ice", so I think it's very reasonable to assume that, while there is no conflicting evidence, it refers to the solid form of H₂O. There's no precedent in Klingon to assume English slang meanings should be carried over. In fact, this has always been discouraged by the members of this list. 

qurgh

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