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Re: Klingon WOTD: natlh (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: natlh (v)
• Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:01:56 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, October 1, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   natlh
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     use up, consume, expend
>
>Additional Notes:
>Also "drain", HolQeD v6n2p9, S33.

As used in canon:

   HoS law'qu' natlhmo' So'wI'
   Due to the tremendous energy drain of a cloaking device... S33

Discussed in KGT:

   Literally meaning "consume, use up, expend", {natlh} is normally
   applied to energy, fuel, supplies, and the like and is used in
   phrases such as {nIn Hoch natlhlu'pu'} ("All the fuel has been
   consumed"), with {nIn Hoch} ("all the fuel") functioning as the
   object of the verb {natlhlu'pu'} ("someone/something has consumed
   it").                                               (KGT p.155)

A related verb is {loj} "be all gone".

{natlh} also has a slang meaning of "be reprehensible, be disgusting, be 
contemptible, be shameful, be objectionable".  Note that here {natlh} is a 
quality and does not take an object.  (Cf. KGT p.155 for details.)



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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