tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 10 21:08:27 2002
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Re: Yet another translation.
ja' DloraH:
>tlhIngan Hol'e'; DaghojtaH, not DaghojlI'.
>tlhIngan Hol'e'; DaghojtaH, DaghojlI'be'.
ja'pu' "Sean M. Burke" <[email protected]>:
> The intended pun is the use of the two suffixes "-taH" and "-lI'",
> which both have a similiar meaning.
DloraH:
>These, along with -pu' and -ta', can be fun.
Sean:
> Maybe the order should be reversed, I´m not quite sure.
DloraH:
>tlhIngan Hol'e'; DaghojlI'be', DaghojtaH.
>
>Both work. It depends on the feel you want.
I remember a similar play on {-lI'} and {-taH} at qep'a' wejDIch (six years
ago?!). A group of participants had gotten caught up playing "Encore", a
non-Klingon game involving singing songs. Another group left the room to
practice Klingon. I think it was SuStel who returned quite some time later
to find the game still going on, and said something like:
SubomlI'be' -- SubomtaH!
It was most amusing when the ones who didn't immediately understand it
asked what he had said. The distinction between the suffixes didn't
survive translation into English without extra commentary.
-- ghunchu'wI'