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Re: Klingon WOTD: mu'tlhegh (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: mu'tlhegh (n)
• Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:13:46 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, September 28, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   mu'tlhegh
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     sentence

Never used in a Klingon sentence, but discussed by Okrand:

"As in any language, Klingon sentences range from the very simple and 
straightforward to the very complex and convoluted." (TKD 59)

[N.B. {nap} "be simple" vs. {Qatlh} "be difficult, be complex"]

"The usual term for 'proverb' is {vIttlhegh}, literally 'truth rope' and 
formed, no doubt, by analogy with {mu'tlhegh} 'sentence' or, literally, 
'word rope'." (HQ 5.1)

"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})." (HQ 12.2:8-9)



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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