tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 25 19:51:34 1999
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: KLBC targhmey QongtaH Qotbogh yIchaw'
- From: "Melanie Steedman" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC targhmey QongtaH Qotbogh yIchaw'
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:51:18 NZST
----Original Message Follows----
From: david joslyn <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: KLBC targhmey QongtaH Qotbogh yIchaw'
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 07:15:47 -0700 (PDT)
> pagh joHneS,
> I need a grammar check on this.
[...snip...]
> As for cutting the tips off of Vulcans ears; there's an old Klingon
proverb:
> targhmey QongtaH Qotbogh yIchaw'
> (Let sleeping Targs lay!)
>
>Umm...shouldn't that be {QongtaHbogh targhmeyvaD Qot 'e' yIchaw'}?
>(For the benifit of targs who are sleeping, to lay allow them.)
>quljIb
I find that English translation rather odd. I was under the impression that
it was not for the targs' benifit to let them lay, but for your own. Of
course knowing vertually no Klingon yet, I could be raising an illegitimate
point that is irrelevant to Klingon speakers. (if this is the case, I'd be
very curious as to why, teach me, oh wise ones.)
T'uvien
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com