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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: QIch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Dec 7 10:16:19 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 09:15:51 -0600
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, December 07, 2011
>
> Klingon word: QIch
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: speech (vocal sounds)
Never used in canon.
Language notes:
KGT 5: In particular, the spelling conventions used for Klingon words are explained there [i.e. TKD], as are descriptions of Klingon sounds.
KGT 7: Some of the differences in Klingon speech are relatively trivial: rate or cadence of speech, for example, or a slight difference in the pronunciation of a specific sound.
KGT 8: This is, of course, the case when two people are speaking two different languages--with utterly different sounds, grammar, and vocabulary--each unknown to the other speaker.
Recordings of the sounds of Klingon can be found online at:
http://www.kli.org/tlh/sounds.html
Cultural notes:
KGT 188: Mispronunciation may turn dangerous, on the other hand, if one Klingon sound is substituted for another.
KGT 18: Those in the Krotmag ({Qotmagh}) region, for example, have characteristic ways of pronouncing the sounds {b} and {D}, as well as the vowels.
{QIch lut} "narrator style" is a type of literary style. See the paq'batlh (p.xvii).
N.B. Don't confuse {QIch} with {SoQ} "speech, lecture, address".
Related nouns:
{wab} sound, noise
{ghogh} voice
{bom} song, chant
Related verbs:
{chuS} be noisy
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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