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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Sep 30 14:22:22 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:22:13 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, September 28, 2014
>
> Klingon word: chel
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: add
AFAIK never used in a sentence.
N.B. {chelwI'} "accountant, financier, someone who deals in finances, accounting, etc." (slang) KGT
KGT 148: Mildly derogatory in its slang usage, this word literally means "adder, one who adds". There is no known non-slang counterpart, though {HuchQeD} (literally, "money science) is often used for economics.
{chelwI'pu'} are viewed with contempt by the ruling warrior caste. (Cf. DS9 "House of Quark")
To add (i.e. do addition) {chen} and {boq} are used: e.g. (4 + 3 = 7 {wej boq loS; chen Soch} "four allies with three; seven forms". It is also possible to reverse the two numbers being added: {loS boq wej; chen Soch}; 2 + 1 = 3 {wa' boq cha'; chen wej} "two allies with one, three forms". N.B. not *{luboq} with the {lu-} prefix since "in these mathematical constructions, the numbers, even those higher than one, are considered singular from a grammatical point of view" (HQ 9.3).
SEE ALSO:
SIm calculate
togh count
teq remove
nge' take away
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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