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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’m surprised I didn’t as well. We even have an unofficial example from Hamlet:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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'ej, pIvmo', wovqu'taHvIS wuqbogh qab, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> 'oH ropmoH rIntaH Sotbogh qech ghom Hurgh.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought."<br>
[TKH, Hamlet’s soliloquy (Act III Scene 1?)]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">GORKON: You have never experienced Shakespeare until you have read<br>
him in the original Klingon. [ST6: The Undiscovered Country]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Voragh, Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><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 <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>De'vID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 17:52, Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Klingon word: <span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>Sotlaw'<br>
Part of speech: <span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>noun<br>
Definition: <span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>distress call<br>
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PUN: <span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>"shout loud"?<br>
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SEE ALSO:<br>
ghum [sound an] alarm (v)<br>
QaH help, aid (v)<br>
rIS <span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>make a cracking/snapping sound; signal, emit a signal (v)<br>
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Se' <span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>frequency (n)<br>
rI'Se' hailing frequency (n)<br>
'evnagh Se' subspace radio (n)<br>
ghum alarm (n)<br>
rISwI' transponder (sonar) (n)<br>
HablI' data transceiving device (n)<br>
QumwI' <span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>communicator (n)<br>
chaDvay' radio frequency (n)<br>
<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>wab HevwI' radio (n) (TNK)<br>
<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>wab labwI' radio service, broadcaster, radio transmitter (n)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">I'm surprised you didn't mention the verb {Sot}: "be distressed, be in distress". <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">Folk etymology: I imagine that when Klingons started signalling for help, whomever saw the signals said {Sotlaw'} "he/she is/they are apparently in distress", and over time, this expression became frozen as a
noun referring to the signal itself.<br clear="all">
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