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Re:KLBC (Spelling)

• From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re:KLBC (Spelling)
• Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 16:12:34 -0700
• Importance: Normal

lab valQIS:

>How would I spell ancient beauty. I come up with tIQ'Iw
>please correct me.

Klingon doesn't have a noun for "beauty". We do have a verb <'IQ> which
means "be beautiful".

It's difficult to translate a single phrase like this without some context.
What are you interested in that is beautiful. If you are trying to describe
something specific, like a person or a place, you could say <'IQwI' tIQ>,
which means "ancient beautiful one". If it's "beauty" in general that you
are interested in, you have to do something different.


pagh
Beginners' Grammarian

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