tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 17 13:21:40 1995
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Re: Conversational Klingon
- From: Niall Hosking <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Conversational Klingon
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 21:21:36 +0000 (GMT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "William H. Martin" at Jan 17, 95 04:00:20 pm
> > >> maj maHegh. cha yIghuS! We will die well. Ready torpedoes!
> >
> > >That's {batlh maHegh.} "We will die with honor!"
It's definitely *not* batlh!
> > I thought it was "vaj maHegh": So, we die. But I may be misremembering.
>
> Similarly, this is "We will die with honor!" Actually, I'll
> double-check. I think it was, "!@#$ Then we will die with
> honor!" which would be {Qu'vatlh! vaj batlh maHegh}, but I
{Qu'vatlh} was spoken by a different person to the {vaj maHegh}.
> don't think there are quite that many syllables, so if either
> {vaj} or {batlh} needs to be dropped, my money rides on keeping
> {batlh}. The enunciation there is bad enough that it could be
> quite easy to mistake {batlh} for {vaj}.
>
> > ~mark
> >
>
> charghwI'
> --
{qSeroHS veyn}
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Niall Hosking
aka Kserokhs Vaene
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'Practise random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.'