[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: SoQ

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, October 03, 2021

Klingon word:	 SoQ
Part of speech: 	noun
Definition: 	speech, lecture, address
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qama'pu'vaD SoQ Dajatlh 
you make a speech to the prisoners.
 [msn.onstage.startrek.expert.Okrand 6/29/1997]

SoQ Dajatlh 
you speak an address/lecture (or, more colloquially, "you deliver an address"
 or "you make a speech"). [msn.onstage.startrek.expert.Okrand 6/29/1997]

(De'vID < MO, 2/17/2018):  TKD glosses {QIch} as "speech (vocal sounds)". The notation (vocal sounds) is intended to denote that 'speech' here means the phenomenon of speech as opposed to an address or oration – that’s {SoQ}.  So {QIch} doesn’t refer to individual speech sounds or speech sounds collectively. An individual speech sound is {QIch wab} and speech sounds collectively are {QIch wabmey}. Pronunciation could be {QIch wab Ho’DoS}, more literally (but awkwardly) 'speech-sound manner, speech-sound technique'.

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

Do not confuse with the verb {SoQ} "be closed, shut".

SEE ALSO:
paQDI'norgh 		teachings (n)
ghojmeH mIw 		lesson (n)
vep 			proclamation, notification, announcement (n)

ja' 			tell, report (v) 
jatlh  			say,  speak (v)
maq 			proclaim (v)
ghoH 			argue, dispute (v)

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