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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: motlhbe'

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



> 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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