tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 04 21:55:09 1994
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too... to...: my rendering
- From: [email protected] (Mark E. Shoulson)
- Subject: too... to...: my rendering
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 09:51:54 -0400
- In-Reply-To: "d'Armond Speers"'s message of Sat, 02 Jul 1994 09:48:54 -0400 (EDT) <[email protected]>
>From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
>Date: Sat, 02 Jul 1994 09:48:54 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: IN%"[email protected]" "Klingon Language List" 30-JUN-
>1994 22:46:08.37
>> Subj: too... to...: my rendering
>>
>> Yeah, I keep forgetting to post this. After some thought, I would render
>> "too drunk to mate" as naghqangDI' chechqu'.
>>
>> Nick.
>This reminds me of the old joke, "the more I drink the better you
>look." It almost sounds like you're saying, "I am really drunk when
>I'm willing to mate with you." I don't think there's going to be an
>easy way around "too," which seems to be an inherent comparative.
Yeah; I don't much like Nick's proposal here. It looks like it means
something else. I think, though, that there's a simple answer:
chechqu'mo' naghlaHbe'.
He can't mate because he's very drunk. Sounds pretty much exactly what we
want.
>--Holtej
~mark