tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 10 08:40:19 1995
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Re: Song Translation
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Song Translation
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95 11:40:16 EST
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Bill Willmerdinger" at Mar 10, 95 10:51 am
According to Bill Willmerdinger:
>
...
> God help me, but I found myself trying to translate "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
> the other night. I was foiled by the lack of a good verb for "hold", and the
> fact that tlhIngan grammar ruined the flow of the song (the three repeated "I
> wanna hold your hand"s were broken up by sentence-as-object constructions).
I want to hold your hand
1 2 3 4 5 6
tlhejchuq ghopmaj vIneH
> Qob
charghwI'
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