tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 15 07:50:01 2006
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Re: Saw
Beth Baisch (aka. tuftedpuffin) wrote:
>I'm trying to translate the sentence "I'm in love with a married man" into
>Klingon (so I guess, "I undoubtedly don't hate a married man" it would
>become) and am wondering how to say "married man". I know that "Saw" means
>marry (v), but I have a feeling saying "loD Saw" would be wrong.
Try {Sawlu'pu'bogh loD} "a man that has married (a woman)" or, even better,
{loD naylu'pu'bogh} "a man that (a woman) has married" if your point is
that he belongs to someone else.
Speaking of the attraction of married men, there's a proverb that might be
used ironically:
reH boch qutluch lo'lu'bogh
The used kut'luch is always shiny. TKW
Usually understood as meaning a person should keep in practice in order to
remain at the peak of his skills, in this context it might be used as a
Klingon version of "The grass is always greener on the other side of the
fence". And since the kut'luch is a knife traditionally used by assassins,
this could be a hint of the dangers in dating a married man - after all,
Klingon wives carry knives!
Qapla'!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons