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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: motlhbe'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Feb 20 10:19:15 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:19:05 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, February 20, 2014
>
> Klingon word: motlhbe'
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be unusual
> Source: TKD
tera'ngan motlhbe' SoH
You are an unusual Terran. PK
Cf. {motlh} "be usual, be normal, be standard" S14 (v)
KGT 94: If a dish with a standard preparation technique (a {nay' motlh}, "usual dish") is being offered, asking how it is to be prepared is a demonstration of cultural ignorance.
nISwI' HIch motlh HoS Hal qengwI' naQ tIq je lurarlu'bogh 'oH
tlhIngan nISwI' beH'e'
The Klingon disruptor rifle is a standard hand held disruptor,
attached to an extended power supply stock. S14
qughDo motlh: pIvlob vagh
Normal Cruising Speed - Warp 5. KBoP
Duj ghajchugh vay', cha'logh boq'egh qav'ap motlh; chen qav'ap le'.
ghajwI'vaD qav'ap le' yIDIl.
If [ship is] owned, pay owner twice the rental to which they are
otherwise entitled. MKE
Cf. also {motlh} "usually, typically, as expected KGT (adv.)
motlh ray' luSamlaHmeH De' Qatlh cha' tlhIngan Duj jIH'a'
The main viewer on a Klingon ship is usually overlaid with a complex target acquisition grid. SP3
motlh pIm 'ejyo' Dujmey
Unlike most Starfleet vessels... SP3
["Starfleet vessels are usually different"]
Similar words:
le' be special, be exceptional (v)
Huj be strange (v)
jum be odd (v)
taQ be weird (v)
le'be' be unexceptional, be nonspecific, be general (v)
roD usually, customarily, habitually, regularly (adv.)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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