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Klingon WOTD: tlhol (verb)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (speersd@georgetown.edu)
Sun May 4 06:08:48 2008

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This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, May 4, 2008.

Category: Stative Verbs

Klingon word:   tlhol
Part of Speech: verb 
Definition:     be raw, unprocessed 
Source: TKD (111 KE, 148 EK159 EK) 
Swedish: vara rå, vara obearbetad


Additional Notes:
KGT p. 84.  A larger animal may be sliced into pieces or a section of a plant may be broken off.  This food is often described as {Soj tlhol} ("raw, unprocessed food"), as opposed to {Soj vutlu'pu'bogh} ("food that somebody has prepared").  What makes the food {tlhol} is not that it has not been heated but rather that no one has done anything to it; thus, "unprocessed" might be a better translation than "raw."  On the other extreme is {Soj qub}--literally "rare food, uncommon food" but used as the Klingon equivalent of haute cuisine, food usually served only on the most formal of occasions.
   

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