tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 23 12:31:51 1996
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Re: Paramount: tlhIngan Hol qab wIghItlh 'ach maQaQ
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Paramount: tlhIngan Hol qab wIghItlh 'ach maQaQ
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:00:08 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "David Wood" at Feb 22, 96 09:18:14 pm
According to David Wood:
>
> For what it's worth, the title was originally supposed to read "Paramount: We
> write Bad Klingon but Feel Good" -- a parady of a line by Leslie Nielsen which I
> couldn't get out of my head (the line, not Leslie Nielsen). This was the thing
> for which I needed the word for "feel."
>
> ghItlhpu' charghwI' ghunchu'wi' 'ej:
>
> >> David Wood writes:
> >> >HutbIp Hutnetlh HutSaD Hutvatlh HutmaH cha' nem <Hamlet> rInpu'
> >> ><Paramount> ghItlhwI'
>
> >999,992 years from now, Paramount's writer will have finished
> >Hamlet. nuqjatlh?
>
> All right... ghItlhwI'_mey_.
Scattered all about? Otherwise, it's ghItlhwI'pu'.
> >> >(I hope this gets the thought across; I could find Klingon for neither
> >> >"infinite" nor "monkey." I also couldn't find a word "feel" referring to
> >> >condition rather than sense of touch, so the title may be a perfect
> >> >example of that which I slander. Gee, this literary criticism thing
> >> >is trickier than Ithought...)
> >
> >> tlhIngan Hol lughItlhtaHvIS mughato'mey'e' toghlaHbe'bogh law'qu'mo' vay'
> >> QaQ law' tlhIngan Hol ghItlhtaHvIS Paramount QaQ puS.
>
> >"Because the mugatos whom they count while they write Klingon
> >are very many, somebody is better than Paramount while it
> >writes Klingon language." nuqjatlh? mu'tlheghqoqvam
> >vIayajlaHbe'ba'.
>
> Nope, the sentence is packed tightly, but not THAT tightly. <toghlaHbe'bogh> =
> "which can't be counted" ~= "infinite". Note also the topicalizer on the
> mugatos. "The infinite number of mugatos write better Klingon than Paramount."
> Am I right? About the translation, anyway...
togh = "count", not "be counted". For that, you'd need
{toghlu'}, but you can't use that with {-laH}, so you have a
bit of a problem there. Why not {mughato'mey'e' toghlaHbogh
pagh}?
> -- David Wood, Freelance Computer Consultant
> ("Freelance" is just a cheesy way of saying "Irregularly Employed")
charghwI'
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