tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 01 20:08:12 1998
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Re: KLBC: Film summary
ja' tlhIbwI':
>Well, the story goes like this. I wanted to translate the title more or
>less literally "Fire Walk With Me". Okay, so far so good. Being as I
>am incompetent (tlhIbwI' jIH) I couldn't translate that. So, I then
>thought that "Fire Follows Me" would be about right. I thought about
>phrasing it as an imperative but that didn't seem right. But being as
>you couldn't work it out, it seems that my translation of the title is a
>pretty bad one and I would appreciate a better one.
I never understood the title of this movie as a command to the fire.
It always looked like a command for someone to "fire walk" with the
person speaking.
Ha' qulDaq mayIt. "Come on -- we'll walk in fire."
-- ghunchu'wI'