Klingon word: HuchQeD Part of speech: noun Definition: economics Source: KGT:p146 _______________________________________________ Also use generally for finance, accounting, etc. ? (KGT 148): Mildly derogatory in its slang usage, [chelwI'] literally means "adder, one who adds". There is no known non-slang counterpart, though {HuchQeD} (literally, "money science") is often used for economics. Whether that hesitation is because of doubts as to the scientific rigor of the field, or just the well-known Klingon distaste for anything having to do with money (i.e. "filthy lucre") is unknown. Remember Grilka and Gowron's shock and disgust at discovering that her warrior neighbor D'Ghor actually resorted to financial manipulation to try to seize control of her late husband's lands and property in DS9 "House of Quark": GRILKA: That is not how we do things here. We are Klingons. We do not dirty ourselves with filthy ledgers looking for some financial trick. < Quark is sitting at a computer console examining her financial records > QUARK: D'Ghor has manipulated your family's holdings, devalued the lands you hold, and he is the principal creditor on Kozak's outstanding gambling debts. It's no accident your family's getting weaker and D'Ghor's family is getting stronger. He's been systematically attacking your family's assets for over five years now. GRILKA: You mean D'Ghor has been scheming and plotting like a F... ? QUARK: Like a Ferengi! GRILKA: There is no honor in what he has done. If he wanted to challenge my House, he should've made a declaration, met our forces in battle. QUARK: And risk destroying the very thing he wanted most, your lands and property? <later, in the Great Hall Quark tries to educate the High Council members> QUARK: So, as you can see from the gross adjusted assets tabulation in column J, the net value of the land acquisition was actually zero. Now, if you go to the file marked Devaluation of Capital Income, we can review the way D'Ghor ... GOWRON: Enough! I don't want to hear anything more about finances, mergers, or currency transactions. The charge has been made that you have used money to bring down a Great House. What do you say to this, D'Ghor? D'GHOR: I say that he is a liar, that he has smeared my name and I demand vengeance through personal combat. < later, after the "duel" in the Great Hall > GOWRON D'Ghor, what are you doing? I didn't want to believe the things he said about you yesterday, but if you can stand here and murder this pathetic little man, then you have no honor, and you have no place in this Hall. < Gowron and the Council turn their backs on D'Ghor and guards take him away > SEE: Huch money (n) Huch chaw' credit card (n) Huch jengva' coin (sg. only; plural is {Huch ngop}) Huch nav bill (i.e. currency) (n) SEE ALSO: malja' business (n) 'umyotlh profit [i.e. monetary] (n.) mIp wealth (n) qav'ap sum (of money), rent (n) qengHoD treasure, booty, plunder, swag, loot (n) wa'chaw spreadsheet, table (n) tlhat grid (spreadsheet); lines (grid, map) (n) wev row (in a table or spreadsheet) (n) war column (in a table or spreadsheet) (n) Suy merchant (n) chelwI' accountant, financier, someone who deals in finances, accounting, etc. (slang) mech trade (v) tlhong bargain, barter (v) DIl pay for (v) je' buy, purchase (v) ngev sell (v) Suq acquire, obtain, get, gain (v) baj earn (v) chel add (v) wagh be valuable (v) mIp be rich (v) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons