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Re: missunderstandings

• From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: missunderstandings
• Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 14:20:26 -0400 (EDT)
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>([email protected])

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>Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 22:19:05 -0700
>From: [email protected]

>In a message dated 96-06-08 21:56:28 EDT, K'aan writes:

>>How would a klingon say, in english?
>> 
>> 
>>I do remember someone saying:
>>"Humans talk a lot, but say nothing."

>law' jatlh tera'nganpu' ach paghna' jatlh chaH

"law'" is a verb, not a noun.  I like the use of "paghna'", but maybe a
slight rephrasing might work...

potlh jatlhlaw' tera'nganpu' 'ach ramwI' jatlhbej

[or potlhHey jatlh... ramwI'na' jatlh]

That's not so hot, as it loses the "talk a lot but don't say anything"
feel, distinguishing between the verbs (well, using -law' and -bej actually
isn't a bad way to represent that). Or maybe...

jatlhtaH 'ej jatlhtaH tera'nganpu'... 'ach pIj potlh jatlhbe'

(I'd prefer using an adverbial for "rarely", but I don't think we have
that).  

The last is actually pretty good, I think.

~mark
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