tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 07 09:35:15 2004
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Re: mu'qaDmey tIQ (was:Re: imperative + -jaj)
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- Subject: Re: mu'qaDmey tIQ (was:Re: imperative + -jaj)
- Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:35:04 -0400 (EDT)
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>>>This reminds me of the following ancient curse:
>>>
>>> wa'SaD pa'mey ghajbogh mebpa'mey Daghajjaj 'ej Hoch pa'Daq lomlIj
>>> tu'lu'jaj'!
>>> May you inherit a hotel with a thousand rooms and be found
>>> dead in every one!
...
>>A Klingon might well be even more direct:
>>
>> wa'SaD mebpa'mey Daghajjaj 'ej Hoch pa'meyDaq bIHeghjaj!
>> May you have 1,000 guest-rooms and [may you] die in all of them!
>
>Hmmm...close. The meaning is preserved more with the phrase {Hoch pa'Daq}.
To me the second one means you die a thousand times. To a klingon this would
be good; to die in combat over and over, how glorious!
But the first one, I picture someone is killed, only once, but his body is
chopped into a thousand pieces, and a piece is put into each room. Not quite
as glorious.
DloraH
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