tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 07 22:24:10 2004
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Re: mu'qaDmey tIQ (was:Re: imperative + -jaj)
At 02:57 PM 7/6/2004, Voragh wrote:
> mebpa'mey DaghajchoHjaj 'ej Hoch pa'Daq lomlIj tu'lu'jaj!
> May you come-to-have guest-rooms and may your corpse be found
> in each (every one) of them!
>
>Changing {Hoch pa'} "each/every room" to the plural {Hoch pa'mey} "all the
>rooms" to match the plural {mebpa'mey}:
>
> wa'SaD mebpa'mey DaghajchoHjaj 'ej Hoch pa'meyDaq lomlIj tu'lu'jaj!
> May you come-to-have 1,000 guest-rooms and may your corpse be found
> in all of them!
>
>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!
>
>or even more concise:
>
> wa'SaDlogh bIHeghjaj!
> May you die a thousand deaths!
> ("May you die 1,000 times!")
>
>and might even throw in {batlhHa'} "dishonorably" just for good measure!
The following occurred to me as a possible
non-literal/Klingon-esque interpretation:
wa'SaD nuH Daghajjaj 'ej ropmo' bIHeghjaj!
May you have a thousand weapons and die of disease!
Dar'Qang