tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 23 09:41:02 1994
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Re: Some simple phrases
- From: [email protected] (Richard Kennaway)
- Subject: Re: Some simple phrases
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 17:44:41 GMT
marqoS writes:
>\ tlhInganHol Dajatlh DaneH'a'
>\ Would you like to speak Klingon?
>Assuming you're speaking to one person, that's fine (although tlhIngan and Hol
>are two separate words). If you're speaking to more than one person, then you
>want { . . . bojatlh boneH'a'} instead.
I'll have to think about that one. Am I addressing each viewer individually
(Da-) or all of them together (bo-)? The right answer depends on my frame of mind. Come to think of it, in languages which distinguish singular and plural "you" (without using the distinction for something else, e.g. familiarity), which form of "you" would a lecturer use in speaking to an audience, or the author of a book use in addressing the reader? For this particular example, I'm inclining towards bo-.
>\ qama'pu' tISuqbe'
I initially thought of the more direct "Hoch HoH" ("Kill everyone!") but decided it was too much of a throattwister.
In a message by charghwI', I glimpse:
>Quadrotriticale is a type of grain immortalized in
>the line, "Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale?"
Ah, memories. Must be twenty years since I saw that episode. Let's see
how that goes in Klingon:
loSpevDaq yIHmey lanpu' 'Iv
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\X/ Richard Kennaway, [email protected], Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich