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Re: Klingon WOTD: chelwI' (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: chelwI' (n)
• Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:04:35 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, August 29, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   chelwI'
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     accountant, financier
>
>Additional Notes: KGT.  (slang)

   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."                                         [KGT 148]

DS9 "House of Quark" shows the contempt the ruling warrior caste have for 
{chelwI'pu'} when Quark asks to see Grilka's accounts.  Note particularly 
Grilka's reaction to what he finds.



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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