tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 14 10:06:29 1996

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Re: KLBC: History....



>Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 21:37:00 -0700
>From: dpNoll <[email protected]>

>>> qun ghItlh yaywI'pu'!
>>> How's that for "History is written by the victors!"

>> yay is a noun, not a verb, so you can't tack the verb-suffix "-wI'" on it.
>> Isn't this very sentence translated in TKW?  As something like "qun luqon
>> charghwI'pu'" or something?

>Yep. Page 179, translated as {qun qon charghwI'pu''e'}, or "CONQUERORS record
>history".

Hmm, wonder why it's not "luqon."

~mark


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