tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 13 00:45:42 2006
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Re: [Klingon_Language] need help translating
- From: "Philip Newton" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Klingon_Language] need help translating
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:37:37 +0100
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On 12/12/06, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> However, Klingons refer to walking the gauntlet of painstik-wielding
> warriors during the Ritual of Ascension {nentay} as "traveling the River of
> Blood":
>
> 'Iw bIQtIqDaq jIjaH
> I travel the River of Blood (TNG "The Icarus Factor")
>
> 'Iw bIQtIqDaq bIlengjaj
> May you travel the River of Blood! PK
>
> Thus, the savvy Klingon child might well ask:
>
> ghorgh bIQtIqDaq jIjaH?
> When will I travel the "River of Blood"?
>
> For more emphasis on "I" by an anxious child, add {jIH}:
>
> ghorgh bIQtIqDaq jIjaH jIH?
> When will *I* travel the "River of Blood"?
In both of those last two sentences, presumably there should be an
{'Iw} before {bIQtIqDaq}, qar'a'?
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Philip Newton <[email protected]>
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