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Re: toj pagh nob

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

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• Subject: Re: toj pagh nob
• Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:25:29 -0500
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ja' naHQun:

> So I've been trying to translate "Trick or treat",...

My favorite rendition is {yuch HInob}.

> I've come up with {toj pagh nob}, which I'm assuming would mean  
> "trick or give".
> Does this work?

Not very well, I fear.  It seems to me that the more "proper" way to  
express it would parallel {bIjeghbe'chugh vaj bIHegh}, but that  
obviously takes a lot more than three syllables.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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