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Re: Klingon WOTD: Sutlh (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Sutlh (verb)
• Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:20:40 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, August 28, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   Sutlh
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     negotiate

Used in canon:

   SutlhtaHvIS chaH DIHIvpu'
   DIHIvpu' SutlhtaHvIS chaH
   While they were negotiating we attacked them. TKD

   bISuv 'e' yIwIv; bISutlh 'e' yIwIvQo'
   Choose to fight, not negotiate. TKW

   bISutlhnISchugh jaghlI' mInDu' tIbej
   If you must negotiate, watch your enemy's eyes. TKW

Related verbs:

{tlhong} "barter, bargain"; {ja'chuq} "discuss"; {ghar} "conduct diplomacy".

Note the idiom {malja' Huq} "transact business".




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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