tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 09 11:15:48 1994
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Re: pronouns and <-bogh>
>Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 09:21:59 -0500
>Originator: [email protected]
>From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
>\ Secondly, on this point, My line motto is Yin Qap'ej this is supposed to
>\ say "Survive and Succeed". How badly did I mangle this one.
>Very close. You made exactly the opposite of the ususal "and" error - when
>joining nouns, the "je" does go after both nouns, but when joining verbs,
>the "'ej" goes between them, just as English: "yIn 'ej Qap".
>You might want to change the form of the verbs, though - what the above
>literally means is "they live and succeed" (or "It lives and succeeds", etc.).
>Although it's arguably Clipped Klingon for some other sense, if you have
>something else in mind, you might want to say it explicitly:
>"May you live and succeed" would be "bIyInjaj 'ej bIQapjaj" -
>"We live and succeed" would be "mayIn 'ej maQap". Or you could fall back
>on the nominal version from the book - "Survival and success!" (well,
>actually, "Life and success!") would be "yIn Qapla' je".
Another option would be as a command: yIyIn 'ej yIQap (or peyIn 'ej peQap).
~mark
>-marqoS