tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 15 15:08:04 2001
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Re: Newbie: Question
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:59:18 +0000, Robert Bracey
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Robert jIpong'egh
>
>I'm sure that isn't right because I saw something about pong being an
>awkward verb in the FAQ.
>
>As UK people will know Comic Relief is starting soon and the slogan is
>'Pants to Poverty'. I was trying to work out how to render this in Klingon
>and was wondering if someone might be able to help. This is how far I got:
>
>(I have the Dictionary but nothing else)
>
>I can find no word for poverty, but chep is the verb for be prosperous so I
>thought chepbe'ghach could be used for poverty.
>There isn't a word for pants either. There is yIvbeH for tunic so
>bIngyIvbeH for under-tunic?
>Or tuQmoH is put on clothes, so it moH is the suffix for cause tuQmoH is
>cause tuQ. So tuQHom for little clothes?
>I couldn't work out how to say Pants to Poverty (or Lack of Riches to
>little clothers) so I used the larger slogan, Say Pants to Poverty and made
>
>chepbe'ghach pejatlh tuQHom
>
>Anyway as you can see I am completely unable to do this, and I could do
>with some help.
>
>Thanks
>
>Robert
>
>
I think we have to look here at what we mean by 'pants to poverty'
We are really saying ' say no to poverty ' or poverty is bad.
how about
mIp lughajbe' tIchepmoH
You must cause those without wealth to prosper
That's about the best I can come up with and I have absoultley no idea
if it fits your needs or even if its correct.
taD, or anyone.... It's over to you.