tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Dec 14 20:40:46 1995
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[What, me worry?]
- From: "David Wood" <[email protected]>
- Subject: [What, me worry?]
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 23:40:56 -0500
[email protected] (Alan Anderson) ghitlhwI'
>David Wood writes:
>>...The TKD doesn't have words for "to fear," "to worry," or "to be afraid."
> Try the verb {Haj} "dread". The verb suffix {-vIp} indicates fear also.
> There's also the noun {rejmorgh} "worrywort". We have many tools!
The -vip suffix modifies another verb, so it's very hard to use by itself.
Or IS it? There's no standalone word {vIp} in the dictionary, so it COULD
be argued, however weakly, that {vIp} could be made a word by itself. But I
digress.
I did finally come up with something else for "What, me worry?" It's
longer, but it rolls trippingly (or is that trips rollingly?) off the tongue:
rejmorgh SaHlaHbe'(bej) The worryworts (definitely) couldn't care.
Joe Steger's was indeed the simplest it could be, and for that reason I
considered not posting this. I AM posting this becuase I wanted to stick the
adverb for "even" in mine somewhere (as in "even cowgirls get the blues," or
"even barbarians like chocolate chip cookies," or the "not even a mouse" from "A
Visit From St. Nick"), but I couldn't find a reasonable substitute.
What would the Klingon equivalent of the "even" construction be, or did the
{bej} in there pick it up?
ngaSwi' gharghmey chu' jIpoSmoH. wejpuH.
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