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<div>From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:qunchuy@alcaco.net"><qunchuy@alcaco.net></a><br>
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<div>On Oct 13, 2017, at 4:23 PM, SuStel <<a
href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/13/2017 2:55 PM,
ghunchu'wI' 'utlh wrote:</div>
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<div>On Oct 13, 2017, at 12:26 PM, SuStel <<a
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<div>I wouldn’t make that assumption. If you must
quote a cat, say:<strong> ghugh vIghro’; jatlh
‘Imyagh</strong>.</div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255,
0);">I think that contradicts the “not speech” part
of {ghugh}’s definition. It makes perfect sense in
my mind to treat {ghugh} as similar to {jatlh}.</span></div>
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<p>If it's not speech, then it's not a verb of saying.</p>
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<div>What is your definition of “verb of saying”, and who
called {ghugh} one?</div>
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<div>I should have "verb of speech," because that's what Okrand
called it in his interview with Will Martin in <em>HolQeD</em>
7:4. His first statement is "Verbs of speech are 'say' verbs,
like <strong>jatlh</strong> and <strong>ja'.</strong>" Then
he says that, unlike the English tendency to attach any old
verb to a quotation, Klingon doesn't do that:</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 30px;">In English, we say, "Give me
some water," he said. "Give me some water," he pleaded. "Give
me some water," he yelled. [...] I think that's an English
thing to do. That's not a Klingon thing to do. In Klingon, you
<strong>jatlh</strong> and you <strong>ja'.</strong> That's
about it. The guard asked the prisoner a question. He replied.
He said, "[gestures a quotation he never quite made]"</div>
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<div>He later admits that there may be other verbs of speech,
but that they're few. "The way I see I see the verbs of
speech, there may be more than just <strong>ja'</strong> and
<strong>jatlh,</strong> but there is only a small number of
words, unlike English."</div>
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<div>And the bulk of this section of the article is Okrand
explaining to Martin that verbs of speech in the <strong>'e'</strong>-less
sentence-as-object construction are used to report direct
quotations.</div>
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<div>So does that mean <strong>ghugh</strong> might also be a
verb of speech? Yeeeesssss, if you ignore that <strong>ghugh</strong>
is explicitly not speech. If you consider "verbs of quotation"
to be a better term to describe them, you still need to
demonstrate that <strong>ghugh</strong> is not among all the
other words that Okrand explicitly blocked from being verbs of
speech, mostly giving their English translations: <strong>tlhob,
qoy', jach, chel, jang,</strong> and that it is one of the
few that Okrand wasn't even sure existed.</div>
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<div>So all of that is a lot of guesswork and looking at things
sideways to get to <strong>ghugh</strong> being a verb of
speech, which is why I said "I wouldn't make that assumption"
and not "You can't do that." Hey, it DOES sound like <strong>ghugh</strong>
could be the "verb of animal noises" equivalent to "verbs of
speech," but we don't KNOW that.</div>
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<div>As for who called <strong>ghugh</strong> a verb of speech:
loghaD did, just not with that term:</div>
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<div>I would assume that this word can be used similarly to
jatlh:<br>
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ghugh vIghro' 'Imyagh.<br>
'Imyagh, ghugh vIghro'.<br>
"The v'gro goes 'Imyagh."</div>
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<div>He's talking about verbs of speech. He assumed; I said I
wouldn't make that assumption.</div>
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