tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 26 18:18:21 2004
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Re: KLBC - to be
From: "Scott Willis" <[email protected]>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Abraham" <[email protected]>
> > But does that apply to all suffixes, if necessary? For example (the noun
> > {jav} comes to mind...): is there a better translation than {mI'
> jIHbe'qu'}
> > to "I am NOT a number!" ?
>
> In Conversational Klingon, one of the useful phrases toward the end of the
> tape is {tlhIngan jIHbe'!} "I am not a Klingon!"
> So using other suffixes on pronouns is just fine.
> About {jav}: This is the part I'm confused about. {jav} can be the number
> six or a slang term for "prisoner". Do you want to say that you are not a
> prisoner, or that you, yourself, are not the number six? Or that you are
not
> merely a number that's been assigned to you?
/tlhIngan-Hol/2000/June/msg00087.html
De'vetlh yIlaD; chaq bIyajchoH.
Although if I were to do it again, I'd probably remove every instance of the
word {mI'} except the final one. Saying {mI' jav jIH} loses the double
meaning of the thing, and the others have to go to mirror that one.
SuStel
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