tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 16 07:38:02 2000
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Fw: Klingons Go Home
- From: "Neal Schermerhorn" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Fw: Klingons Go Home
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:35:28 -0500
Forwarded with permission
Qermaq
----- Original Message -----
From: "CWinifred" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.klingon
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 4:45 PM
Subject: Klingons Go Home
> Just a little thing that popped into my twisted little brain - John Cleese
with
> a forehead and a d'k tahg. I've left the visuals to your imagination, you
> either get it or ya don't.
>
> C
>
> 'juH jaH tlhIngan '
>
> yaS:
> wejpuH, what's this? 'juH jaH tlhIngan '? ' Klingon go house'?
>
> BRIAN:
> It-- it says, 'Klingons, go home'.
>
> yaS:
> No, it doesn't. What's ta' Hol for 'Klingon'? tugh!
>
> BRIAN:
> 'tlh -- tlhIngan'?
>
> yaS:
> Plural for beings capable of using language is . . . ?
>
> BRIAN:
> Eh. -pu' ?
>
> yaS:
> 'tlhInganpu'. 'jaH'? What is 'jaH'?
>
> BRIAN:
> 'Go'. Let--
>
> yaS:
> Conjugate the verb 'to go'.
>
> BRIAN:
> Uh. 'jIjaH'. Uh, 'bIjaH'. 'jaH'. 'majaH'. 'SujaH'.
>
> yaS:
> So 'jaH' is...?
>
> BRIAN:
> Ah, huh, third person plural, uh, present indicative. Uh, 'they go'.
>
> yaS:
> But 'Klingons, go home' is an order, so you must use the...?
>
> BRIAN:
> The . . . imperative!
>
> yaS:
> Which is...?
>
> BRIAN:
> Umm! Oh. Oh. Um, 'yI-'. 'yIjaH'!
>
> yaS:
> How many Klingons?
>
> BRIAN:
> Ah! 'pe-' -- Plural. Plural. 'pejaH'. 'pejaH'.
>
> yaS:
> 'pejaH'.
>
> BRIAN:
> Ah. Eh.
>
> yaS:
> 'juH'?
>
> BRIAN:
> Eh.
>
> yaS:
> Syntactic marker?
>
> BRIAN:
> Oh.
>
> yaS:
> 'Go home'? This is motion towards. qar'a', loDHom?
>
> BRIAN:
> Ah. 'e', topic, qaH! Ahh! No, not topic! Not topic, qaH! No! Ah! Oh,
the...
> locative! Locative! Ah! ' -Daq', qaH! 'juHDaq'! Ah! Oooh! Ah!
>
> yaS:
> 'juHDaq'.
>
> BRIAN:
> Aaah! Ah.
>
> yaS:
> Understand?
>
> BRIAN:
> HIja', qaH.
>
> yaS:
> maj, now write it out a hundred times.
>
> BRIAN:
> lu' qaH. Thank you, qaH. Hail qeylIS, qaH.
>
> yaS:
> Hail qeylIS. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
>
> BRIAN:
> Oh, thank you, qaH. Thank you, qaH. Hail qeylIS and everything, qaH! Oh.
Mmm!
> . . . pItlh!
>
> SuvwI' :
> majQa'. Don't do it again.
>
> [SOLDIERS chase BRIAN]
>
> loD:
> Qu'vatlh! tlhInganpu' Ha'DIbaH.
>