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Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for 2006/10/23

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for 2006/10/23
• Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:31:58 EDT

In a message dated 10/26/2006 1:46:08 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> >      DIlbot: {taj qaDuQ.} (3)
> >     Dilbert: "I'd jab you with a used needle."
> > 
> 
> This means "I stab you. A knife" In other words,
> the word "knife" has no grammatical connection to
> the verb.  The only way we know to show instrumental
> clauses is by the phrase {taj lo'taHvIS} (conjugated
> for the proper subject, of course). I'd also add
> the adjective {lam} 'dirty', since what makes a used
> needle so undesirable is that it is contaminated.
> {taj lam vIlo'taHvIS loQ qaDuQ} I qualified the verb
> with "a little" because a jab is not a full stab,
> IMHO.
> 


It might too much of a stretch, but you could say a "shiny knife" {taj boch} 
or even a "shiny kut'luch" {qutluch boch}, i.e., a used one, alluding to the 
following proverb:

The used kut'luch is always shiny. = reH boch qutluch lo'lu'bogh. (TKW p. 103)

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