tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 24 22:41:18 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] The Legend of Gorath part 4, with credits
- From: "De'vID" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] The Legend of Gorath part 4, with credits
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:41:03 +0100
- Cc: Brad Wilson <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Brad Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Grandfather: Noone was spared. So you see, [...]
> vavnI': pagh pollu'. yItu'. [...]
{pol} isn't the right verb for this. {pagh pollu'} sounds like no one
was put into storage. Qov's suggestion of being more direct with
{Heghpu' Hoch} is better. I second her comment about {yItu'} as well.
"So you see" is a kind of filler in English, it shouldn't be so
literally translated.
> Boy: But it was my first kill...
> loDHom: pagh HoHwIj wa'DIch 'oH...
Surely, {'ach} and not {pagh}?
Also, I'd suggest to rephrase noun-based sentences in English to be
verb-based ones in Klingon.
Something like {'ach targhvam vIHoHpa' not vIHoH} but less wordy.
> Grandfather: Yes, and it was clumsy.
> vavnI': HIja', 'ej Soy'pu'.
In English you say that a "kill" is "clumsy", but what you mean is
that the killer was clumsy while killing. I'm not sure {Soy'} can be
used like that. Perhaps {'ej DaHoHtaHvIS bISoy'}?
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De'vID
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