tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 29 05:34:55 1999
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Re: Star Trek : Klingon! CD-Rom Game observation
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Star Trek : Klingon! CD-Rom Game observation
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 20:52:39 -0500
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <[email protected]>
jatlh juDmoS:
> pIj *KCD* vIQujpu'. reH munuQpu' vIDellaHbe'bogh vay'. DaH jIyaj. narghDI'
> romuluS HoHwI', "petaD" jatlh Pok vav. *Terran colloquialism* 'oH', qar'a'
?
> ("Everybody freeze!"?).
HIja'. 'a 'oH QIjpu' Okrand. <qIb lengwI' tlhIngan Hol> yInuD.
In KGT, Okrand explains that there is a Klingon idiom, {petaD}, which means
"Don't move!" If you said {petaD'eghmoH}, you'd be saying "Freeze
yourselves!" and it would be taken literally.
This is also where Okrand explains that whenever you use a verb of quality
in an imperative form, you use {-'egh} and {-moH} with it. Just an
"arbitrary" rule of the language you've got to follow.
> I was reminded of a few Terran "gangster" movies, and thought of a couple
of
> lines that I thought would be humorous in a similar Klingon usage. What do
> you make of these?
>
> DungvaD peSIch ! (Everybody reach for the sky !)
> and my own favorite:
That'd be "Reach for the benefit of the sky!" What you mean is, I think,
{chalDaq peSIch}. {DungDaq peSIch} could also work.
> Hewmey tIrur ! (Everybody make like statues !)
mu'tlheghvetlh vIparHa'.
> I realize that a phrase like "Everyone, be frozen" could be interpreted as
> "Do not move" in any civilization, but I was bored, and wanted to nitpick.
It's a valid objection, but has already been addressed by Okrand.
SuStel
Stardate 99992.0