On 11/4/2021 11:00 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
I'm inclined to start using {Hergh qulcher}.
Odd. The KLI's New Words List doesn't list *qulcher*/cream/ separately from *nIm qulcher taD*/ice cream./ In English, /cream/ by itself might be assumed to be a kind of food, or it might refer to any substance of that texture. It really depends on how it's used. In Klingon, we also have the word *'Ir*/be creamy, pasty,/ which has the note "in the sense of toothpaste. Describes smooth, thick liquids or liquid-like things." So the substance you want can definitely be described as *'Ir,* and in a pinch you could describe it as *'IrwI'*/creamy thing, pasty thing./ Since the Klingon describes ice cream specifically as *nIm qulcher taD*/frozen milk ??????,/ and since *'Ir* and *qulcher* were given to us in the same *qep'a',* I am inclined to believe that *qulcher* can refer to any substance with a creamy, pasty texture, not just dairy-based cream. If this is correct, then an unguent is a kind of *qulcher.* Then there's the pun: the word *qulcher* sounds like /culture,/ which is what you use to grow things like bacteria. A yogurt culture is the bacteria used to make yogurt, and yogurt is creamy, but you usually don't call yogurt /cream./ // -- SuStel http://trimboli.name