tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 21 11:28:52 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] qo''e' tu'bogh pagh - 'ay' wa'maH wa'
> De'vID:
>>> CHEKOV: We do believe all planets have a sovereign claim to
>>> inalienable human rights.
>>
>> CHEKOV: Human DIbmey lughaj Hoch yuQmey 'e' wIHar. paghvaD nov
>> DIbmeyvam.[1]
>>
>> [1] - I know "inalienable" and "alien (to)" are quite different. I did
>> the best I could with the pun here.
Voragh:
> Inalienable rights "cannot be surrendered, sold or transferred to someone else - the government, for example, or another person." (see http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_inalienable_rights). Instead of {nov} "be foreign, be alien" just use {taH} "continue, go on, endure, survive" or {ru'Ha'} "be permanent": {DIbmey ru'Ha'}. {ru'} "be temporary" has already been used in a political sense in {boq ru'} "coalition" [lit. "temporary alliance" as well as in {mu'mey ru'} "temporary words" (i.e. made-up or nonce words).
>
> Even simpler, this may be a good chance to use the suffix {-na'} "definite, definitely, true, real": {DIbna'mey}.
'ach Chekov mu'mey lo'qa' tlha'bogh Azetbur mu'mey'e':
> AZETBUR: Inalien... If only you could hear yourselves? 'Human rights.'
> Why the very name is racist. The Federation is no more than a 'Homo
> sapiens' only club.
{nov} jatlhbe'chugh Chekov, chay' tlha' Azetbur?
Voragh:
> Chang loves quotations, why not just quote the Klingon proverb here:
>
> mataHmeH maSachnIS
> To survive, we must expand. TKW
>
> Kirk will remember that Mara told him, "There are poor planets in the Klingon systems, we must push outward if we are to survive" (TOS "Day of the Dove") and he can still make the connection to Lebensraum.
maj. QaQ mu'tlheghvam.
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De'vID
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