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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mech
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Nov 21 10:13:33 2013
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:13:12 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, November 21, 2013
>
> Klingon word: mech
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: trade
nom yer mechmeH Quj
["game for fast trading of property" (untranslated)] MKE
chaw'vam yIpol 'ej SIbI'Ha' yIlo' pagh 'oH yImech
This card may be kept until needed or traded. MKE
KGT 1: both commerce and intellectual exchange are slowly returning to the levels that had been attained prior to the hostilities.
In 2267 Klingon agent Krell told village headman Appela that killing has pleasures: it's easier than trading and it has rewards - like the hunt. (TOS "A Private Little War")
"You've tried to hem us in, cut off vital supplies, strangle our trade! You've been asking for war!" (Kor, TOS "Errand of Mercy")
Similar words:
tam exchange (v)
tlhong barter, bargain (v)
je' buy, purchase (v)
ngev sell (v)
DIl pay for (v)
malja' business (n)
malja' Huq "transact business"
Suy merchant (n)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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