tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 16 22:37:10 2004
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RE: Help with translation
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: RE: Help with translation
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:26:55 -0500
Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
>quljIb wrote:
>
>>I'm trying to come up with a word for "company", as in: "I work for a
>>company that makes X."
>
> X chenmoHbogh malja'Daq jIvum
>
> X chenmoHbogh malja'vaD jIvum
>
>As has been mentioned, {malja'} "business" is the closest we have but our
>sole example refers to the activity, not a place:
>
> batlh malja' DaHuq.
> You transact business honorably. PK
>
>Another option is to recast it and use {Suy} "merchant" or {laSvargh}
>"factory".
That sorta works. I suppose it is more acurate to say that I work in a laboratory, since I'm testing the paper, but {laSvargh works for my purposes.
qatlho'
-quljIb