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Re: 'e' / about

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



SuStel:
>And finally, as ghunchu'wI' pointed out, in the first example there's no
>need to get so fancy.  /tlhIngan Hol SoQ vImuch/ "I present a Klingon
>language speech" works (though there is a little ambiguity: is it a speech
>in Klingon, or a speech about Klingon?).

According to Okrand (msn.onstage.startrek.expert.okrand 6/29/1997) the 
idiom is {SoQ vIjatlh}:

   But it's also OK to say "speak an address, speak a lecture," for
   example:

      SoQ Dajatlh "you speak an address" or, more colloquially,
      you deliver an address" or "you make a speech"

His example sentence:

   qama'pu'vaD SoQ Dajatlh
   you make a speech to the prisoners

Using {much} "present, perform" might imply something more elaborate than a 
simple speech - say using special effects, audio-visual aids, costumes, 
etc.  Think of a Klingon version of Gallagher (a notorious American prop 
comic)!




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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 






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