tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 30 18:29:00 2007
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'speech'. (was Re: vocabulary question (nitpicking)
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: 'speech'. (was Re: vocabulary question (nitpicking)
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:27:46 EDT
In a message dated 9/30/2007 9:41:11 AM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> {QIch} is "speech (vocal sounds)".
>
> IMHO, the gloss implies that it refers to the ability to speak; as sight is
> the ability to see.
> Humans have speech. Plants are mute.
> Humans have sight. Plants are blind.
>
> Whereas, {SoQ} is an oration made by somebody at a lecture or qep'a'.
>
Another distinction in English is that {QIch} is 'speech' as a mass noun (it
can't take the indefinite article "a"), but {SoQ} is 'speech' as a count noun
(it can take "a").
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