tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 02 09:26:33 2004
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Re: 'e' / about
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)!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons