tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 27 13:56:41 1998
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RE: klbc - Trick or treat trial
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: klbc - Trick or treat trial
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:53:54 -0700
lab marvaj:
> DaH yInob qoj qanughI' !
> DaH chonob joq qanughI' !
Nice try, but there are a few problems. The first is that the Klingon "or"
words do not really work like the English "or" in "trick or treat". What "A
or B" really means when used in "trick or treat" or "buy or die" is "if A
doesn't happen, then B will". The way Klingon does that is something like <A
-be'chugh vaj B>, as in <bIje'be'chugh vaj bIHegh>.
The second problem is with the <nob>, and it is pretty minor. You are
telling the person on the other end of the conversation to give ...
something. If you make that something specific - chocolate - you have a
winner.
DaH yuch chonobbe'chugh vaj qanughI' !
I won't go into the socio-political implications of this statement...
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian