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Re: Klingon WOTD: lut (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 


>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, August 8, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   lut
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     story

As used in canon:

   lut tlhaQ DaSov'a'
   Do you know any funny stories? PK

As discussed by Okrand:

   The verb for "write" in the sense of "compose" is {qon}, literally
   "record". This is used for songs and also for literary works (poems,
   plays, romance novels, and so on). As has been pointed out, it's as
   if the song or story is somehow out there and the 'writer' comes
   into contact with it, extracts it (to use Qov's nice phrase), and
   records it. ... There's another verb, {gher}, which doesn't have a
   straightforward equivalent in English, but which has sometimes been
   translated (not entirely satisfactorily) as "formulate" or "compile"
   or "pull together". The idea seems to be that of bringing thoughts
   together into some kind of reasonably coherent form so that they can
   be conveyed to someone else. (startrek.klingon)

   The stories acted out in Klingon operas may be adapted from a variety
   of sources: legends, history (particularly military history), famous
   works of literature. Occasionally, an opera presents an original plot.
   To follow the story, one has to prepare ahead of time.  (KGT 73)

   There is a difference between the end of the performance of a song or
   opera or play, indicated by  making use of the verbs {van} and {ghang},
   and the ending, or final portion, of a song or opera or play itself.
   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}). (HolQeD 12.2:8-9)

Cf. also {wIch} "myth, legend" and {qun} "history".


-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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