tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 20 06:01:57 2006
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Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for 2006/10/17
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for 2006/10/17
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:01:02 +1000
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ghItlhpu' pm5, ja':
>Dilbert: "Sometimes I feel as if my life is nothing but moving
>things from one place to another."
>DIlbot: {rut jIyIntaHvIS Qaybogh jo' vIDapu' neH 'e' vIQub.}
Watch out where you put {rut}. What you're saying here is "While I live
sometimes..." I would have put it before {'e'}: {rut 'e' vIQub} "sometimes I
think that". Also, {Qaybogh jo' vIDapu'} means "I behave like resources
which transfer", which isn't what you're after.
I would have said it this way: {wa' Daqvo' latlhDaq jo' vIQaytaH 'ej
vIQayHa'taH neH rut 'e' vIQub} "Sometimes I think that I am merely moving
resources from one place to another and moving them back".
>Dilbert: "I've decided to seek a deeper connection with others
>to cure my emptiness."
>DIlbot: {naQHa'ghachwIj vormeH boq tay'qu' vInej 'e' vIwuqpu'.}
"I have decided that I will seek a more united alliance in order to cure my
incompleteness". Not bad! I'm a bit unsure about {boq tay'qu'}, but {-qu'}
may sometimes act with comparative or superlative force, I suppose, which
would make it more reasonable. Also, if Dilbert's talking about an active
decision he's made, {-ta'} may also be appropriate in the place of {-pu'}.
>Dogbert: "Blah, blah, blah."
>Doqbot: {...} (3)
Perhaps {chatlh, chatlh, chatlh} "nonsense, nonsense, nonsense"? ({chatlh}
literally means "thin stew, thick soup". It's from KGT.)
>Dilbert: "Maybe I'm doing it wrong."
>DIlbot: {chaq jInIDHa'.} (4)
{chaq jIta'Ha'} would also be possible.
vItIvtaH. majQa'!
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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