tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 24 22:07:11 1999
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Re: Have a nice day!
ja' SuStel:
>...Just as we might
>translate "Which ale do you want?" into {HIq DaneHbogh yIngu'}, so might a
>Vulcan phrase have changed from something else to an imperative. Or it
>might not have.
ja' ~mark:
>And that's exactly it. Since when do we translate phrasing and not the
>meaning?
>...
>But the Klingon "surrender or die" didn't seem to have survived so
>verbatim. Why should Vulcan have?
jagh DajeymeH nIteb yISuvrup.
jIchuSpu'. jIghoHpu'. ghaqbe'pu' qechwIj.
qech vImughtaHvIS, Hol vImaghchoHpu'. jI...tlhIj.
SKI: Sorry for the extended -- and unnecessary -- arguments.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh