tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat May 11 13:03:16 1996
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Re: Qu'
On Sat, 11 May 1996, Ford Prefect wrote:
> ghItlhpu' ~mark:
> >[..."What's your quest?" ]
> >[ "Searching for <very honoured drinking-vessel>" ] Holy Grail?
> >["What's the <speed and direction> of a Bird of Prey?"] velocity?
> >[ "Klingon Bird of Prey? Romulan Bird of Prey?"]
> >["I don't know - <distressed exclamation>"]
>
> Actually, I thought that it was not so much a distressed exclamation, as
> being hurled over into the Chasm...
qojvo' vIchaghlu'chugh vaj jISotbej 'ej jIjachbej
[The intended appropriate, though far from direct, translation being:
Were I to be hurled over into a chasm, I would certainly emit a
distressed exclamation!]
janSIy