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Re: more questions on translating words

David Trimboli ([email protected])

From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: more questions on translating words
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:16:52 -0500
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From: weQqul:

> is there a difference in the words always and forever? in some
> languages there is a difference and in others there is not one

From: "d'Armond Speers, Ph.D." <[email protected]>

> > We don't have a word glossed as "forever."  "Alwasy" is {taH}.
>
> Always is {reH}.
>
> DoqDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'.

I believe we have a line in Power Klingon:

reH 'uQvam vIqawtaH
I will remember this dinner forever.

I suspect that Klingon is one of those languages weQqul mentions without a
clear distinction between "always" and "forever."

SuStel
Stardate 4021.2

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