tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 31 01:47:51 1994
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Re: sayings and joke
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 12:07:57 EDT
>According to Richard Kennaway:
>>
>> I've been trying to translate some Klingon back into English, but the
>> results are often cryptic. Advice about these two examples?
>>
>> charghwI' writes:
>> >DeghHomvam 'oH wIghHomwIj'e' 'ach jIHemmeH vItuQ.
>>
>> "My small genius is this small emblem (or: helm), but I wear it in order to
>> be proud"?
>My attempt was to come as close as possible to "This is my
>small badge of genius, but I wear it proudly." Except for
>replacing "emblem" with "badge", you pretty much got what I
>wrote. While I'm not delighted with it, I could not quickly
>come up with something better, though I'm open to suggestions.
Um... "DeghHom wIghHomwIj 'oH Deghvam'e'/Dochvam'e'" for the first part,
and "I wear it with pride" works better as "vItuQmo' jIHem." These are
some of the constructions used for sentences as adverbs; I just sometimes
wish there were more.
>> -- Richard Kennaway
>charghwI'
~mark