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<p class="MsoNormal">Regarding punctuation, many of us use one or two angle brackets for that very reason.
<i>E.g</i>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> <<Star Trek: Discovery>> lut mIrmeyvaD tlhIngan qotlhwI'qoq 'ang NETFLIX
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> Netflix Releases Klingon Trailer for "<i>Star Trek: Discovery</i>" Series (Netflix press release)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="st">The smaller </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">guillemets</span></em><span class="st">, or angle quotes ( « and » ) look better but they sometimes don’t survive posting and re-posting via various
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is another problematic example of <b>tlhegh</b> known: <b>nugh tlhegh</b> (lit. "society rope") from the KCD novelization (was it used in KCD itself?):<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "Pok has yet to complete the Second Rite of Ascension. In the eyes of the<br>
<b>nugh tlhegh</b> he is still a boy." <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This seems to mean received opinion or acceptable behavior. (Compare the phrase "party line" in English.) Someone once suggested that this actually refers to the line of six
<i>painstik</i>-wielding warriors who form the gauntlet (<i>i.e.</i> the "River of Pain") a young Klingon must pass through during his/her
<b>nentay</b> ceremony.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As for talking about <b>mIr</b> and <b>tlhegh</b>, there isn’t much in my notes:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(Okrand, <i>HQ</i> 5.1): The usual term for <i>proverb</i> is
<b>vIttlhegh</b>, literally <i>truth rope</i> and formed, no doubt, by analogy with
<b>mu'tlhegh</b> <i>sentence</i> or, literally, <i>word rope</i>.<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(Lieven, 9/2017): Of course, it's [<b>lut mIr</b>] literal translation is 'story chain' or 'chain of stories' (parallel to the
<b>lupwI' mIr</b>, <i>train</i> from TNK) … Besides, it was not a message, Okrand was sitting next to me and said "do it this way"."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--Voragh<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> tlhIngan-Hol
<b>On Behalf Of </b>nIqolay Q<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We don't really know a lot about how Klingon deals with referring to words as words. At the very least, I feel like you'd want some sort of quotation mark: {Dop "Say'" "lam" je.} (Just out of
curiosity, is there some other punctuation accepted by the Klingonist community to indicate quotations besides the "? It kind of mixes in with the qaghwI'mey.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I'd be interested to know a little more about the different ways {tlhegh} and {mIr} are used metaphorically. {mIr} is used in {lupwI' mIr} "train" and {lut mIr} "series of stories", and seems
to mean "related things connected sequentially". {tlhegh} is used in {mu'tlhegh} "sentence", {vIttlhegh} "proverb", and {yutlhegh} "scale, spectrum", and seems to be a bit more abstract, and isn't used as a standalone word in those metaphorical compounds.
Are there any more uses of these words from canon?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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