[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: QIch

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, December 07, 2011
> 
> Klingon word:   QIch
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     speech (vocal sounds)

Never used in canon.

Language notes:

KGT 5:  In particular, the spelling conventions used for Klingon words are explained there [i.e. TKD], as are descriptions of Klingon sounds.

KGT 7:  Some of the differences in Klingon speech are relatively trivial: rate or cadence of speech, for example, or a slight difference in the pronunciation of a specific sound.

KGT 8:  This is, of course, the case when two people are speaking two different languages--with utterly different sounds, grammar, and vocabulary--each unknown to the other speaker.

Recordings of the sounds of Klingon can be found online at:
	http://www.kli.org/tlh/sounds.html 


Cultural notes:

KGT 188:  Mispronunciation may turn dangerous, on the other hand, if one Klingon sound is substituted for another.

KGT 18:  Those in the Krotmag ({Qotmagh}) region, for example, have characteristic ways of pronouncing the sounds {b} and {D}, as well as the vowels.

{QIch lut} "narrator style" is a type of literary style.  See the paq'batlh (p.xvii).


N.B. Don't confuse {QIch} with {SoQ} "speech, lecture, address".

Related nouns:
	{wab}   sound, noise
	{ghogh} voice
	{bom}   song, chant

Related verbs:
	{chuS}  be noisy


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons