tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 28 07:21:12 1998
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Re: Qong bom
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Qong bom
- Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 07:17:37 -0700
At 06:06 98-05-28 -0700, mu' QujwI' wrote:
}I've made a translation (or rather Klingon Interpretation) of a Dutch
lullaby Called "Slaap kindje slaap" which means "Sleep child sleep".
}
}Originally It's about a sheep with white feet that's drinking milk.
}Because that's not really in the klingon spirit (and there's no klingon
word for sheep) I decided a targ would be a better subject.
}For those of you who don't know what a targ is, it's a klingon,fury,piglike
Ha'DibaH with spiky things on his back.
}
}O.k, so here it is. Note that It's in clipped klingon.
}
}Qong puqwI' Qong,
Sleep, my child, sleep. (clipped)
}HurDaq jItlI' targh.
Outside the targ is ???-ing.
I don't know the verb /jIt/. Am I just out of it today?
}qamDu'Daj bIH Doq'e',
The xxx is his feet.
The construction you have used there is only used to say "X is Y" when X and
Y are both nouns. If /Doq/ were a noun, you would have said that it,
whatever it was, was his feet. But it's not. To say "His feet are red"
use the verb /Doq qamDu'Daj/. To be is incorporated into the verb.
}vaj 'Iw Doq tlhutlhba'lI'.
Thus obviously he is drinking red blood.
}Qong puqwI' Qong,
}HurDaq jItlI' targh.
Etcetera. What the heck is /jIt/?
And lastly, the subject line means "the song sleeps" not "sleep song,"
because /Qong/ is not a noun.
Qov [email protected]
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