tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 25 08:43:26 1996
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Re: Today is a ... [KLBC]
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- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:48:12 -0400 (EDT)
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ghItlh Andre:
>Hmmm, one of the most fascinating
>sentences that I like is "Today
>is a good day to die" (I once heard this one in one of the DS9
>series). This is my first attempt of this translation, however I
>doubt it's a good one.
DaHjaj Hegh QaQjaj
According to The Klingon Way (TKW), Marc Okrand used "It is a gooday to die" as:
Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam
or, "Today is good <for one> to die."
>I struggle with "to die" it is something that happens in the
>future. I guess this means a verb of type 7 (TKD 4.2.7)
I think here we see the use of the verb suffix {-lu'} to show us that this will
most likely happen in the future, or rather, it is 'indefinite' when it will
happen.
Qapla'
-chIya'ghu
thinking of a tag line........