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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: DenIbya' Qatlh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jul 22 10:15:04 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:14:50 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 22, 2014
>
> Klingon word: DenIbya' Qatlh
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: Denebian slime devil
Also called a {DenIb Qatlh}. It's an animal.
Listed in the "Curses" section of the KCD Language Lab.
on Deep Space Station K-7 in 2268, Lt. Korax called Kirk this. He also compared humans to Regulan bloodworms as they are both "soft and spineless". (TOS "The Trouble with Tribbles")
"Two to one... Even a Federation *Qtalh* [sic] like you can figure those odds." (Shatner, _Ashes of Eden")
Useful words:
HuH bile, gall, slime (n)
pIp spine (n)
tun be soft (v)
puj be weak (v)
reghuluS 'Iwghargh Regulan bloodworm
tun; reghuluS 'Iwghargh rur
soft as a Regulan bloodworm (KGT)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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