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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mu'tlhegh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Aug 30 16:06:11 2017
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:27:14 +0000
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Klingon word: mu'tlhegh
Part of speech: noun
Definition: sentence
Source: TKD
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AFAIK Okrand has used {mu'tlhegh} in a Klingon sentence just once:
lutvam bejlu'taHvIS, tlhIngan Hol mu'tlheghmey chu'qu' vIchenmoHbogh luQoylu'.
It's [i.e. ST3] the film for which I devised Klingon... (NASM)
and once as a "Category Title" in TalkNow!:
mu'tlheghmey
Phrases (TNK)
SOME GRAMMAR NOTES:
(HQ 5.1): The usual term for proverb is {vIttlhegh}, literally "truth rope" and formed, no doubt, by analogy with {mu'tlhegh} sentence or, literally, "word rope."
(TKD 59): As in any language, Klingon sentences range from the very simple and straightforward to the very complex and convoluted.
(TKD 65f.): What is a single sentence in English is often two sentences in Klingon.
(Okrand, HQ 4.2:5-6): What I find myself doing a lot, especially with these Skybox things... The English is these long, long complicated sentences, and I said, "no way," I'd take this long sentence and split it up into two or three. So they went and counted the periods, and said "wait a minute, we gave you two sentences, you're giving us back six, what's going on here?"
(HQ 12.2:8-9): For an opera, play, story, speech, and so on, the final portion is its {bertlham}. This word usually refers to the last aria or other musical portion in an opera, last speech in a play, last sentence or so of a story or an address. The {bertlham} of a well-known work is often well-known itself, as is its beginning ("bI'reS}).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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