tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 03 01:30:30 2001
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Re: KLBC: vaj
> > > > jup yIjatlh vaj yI'el
> > > > speak friend and enter
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> Jiri's version does this too, but why change the position of /jup/ "friend"?
Not sure why I did that, probably mostly because of the first rule of
Anime Japanese: the word order in Japanese is exactly the oposite of
English :-)
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> /ghIq yI'el/ is simple enough: "and then enter." /ghIq/ is found on the
> KLI's New Words List. I agree that /vaj/ is not entirely appropriate here.
> It IS possible to squish Klingon sentences together, especially with /vaj/,
> but one imperative does not logically lead to another.
Point; I'd have to say ((yIjatlh jup vaj Da'ellaH)) for it to make
sense, and that wouldn't be true to the original at all.
Jiri <[email protected]>