Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, October 03, 2021 Klingon word: SoQ Part of speech: noun Definition: speech, lecture, address _______________________________________________ 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) -- Voragh, Ca'Non Master of the Klingons Please contribute relevant vocabulary from the last year or two. I’ve fallen behind in updating my files and adding cross-references for related words.