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Re: KLBC: Klingon toast

• From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: KLBC: Klingon toast
• Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 13:14:23 -0400 (EDT)
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>([email protected])

>Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 21:28:10 -0700
>From: [email protected] (HoD trI'Qal)

>At 07:32 AM 9/7/96 -0700, Jeff Velten wrote:

>[...]
>>Let me try this again:
>>
>>qamDu'lIjDaq DaHeghjaj
>>
>>Literally: On your feet, may you die (I think... :))


>MUCH better!  Actually, you have the "you-it" prefix on "to die", which is
>not correct.  It should just be bI- ("you, no object").  Other than that, it
>looks fine!

It's okay; I personally prefer "bIQamtaHvIS bIHeghjaj"; "on your feet" is
an idiom; who else's feet would I be on/near/at??  We also have that canon
phrase about "QamvIS" and "torvIS" (sic) that translates to the English
idioms of on-feet and on-knees.

~mark

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