Remember that Worf told us, “Klingons may be inaccurate, but they are never approximate.”
As others have pointed out, just because there's a stereotype about a *culture* doesn't mean that you can't say things in the *language* of that culture which go against that stereotype. The discussion here isn't about what a hypothetical Klingon might say instead of what I had wanted to say. It's about how to express what I had wanted to say in the Klingon language (whether or not a stereotype Klingon would be inclined to say the same thing).
I honestly believe that “Almost a year ago” is vague and adds very little to the sentence. {qaSpu’. Daqaw’a’?} {qaSpu’ ‘ej vIlIjQo’!} The significance is not that it’s almost a year ago. The significance is that it happened, and you have not forgotten it. How will having it be a year ago add meaning to the occurrence when that time threshold occurs? You are assuming a significance to the concept of an anniversary that may be gibberish to a Klingon.
Okay, so nobody has to assume anything, because what I said took place in an actual conversation. Here's the context: I was telling someone about a death that occurred almost a year ago, where it is understood that the period leading up to the anniversary is significant in the deceased person's culture. Stating that the death occurred "almost a year ago" (but not exactly a year ago, or just a little bit more than a year ago) was specifically important *in the context of this particular conversation*.
Whatever view you may think a hypothetical Klingon might have on the significance or insignificance of anniversaries, that an event happened "almost a year ago" is specifically important in the context of the conversation I was having. You're arguing about an answer to a different question than the one I asked.
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