tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 07 13:06:47 1994
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re: Boiling blood
According to [email protected]:
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> 'IwlIj jachjaj je 'IwlIj pubbe'
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> May your blood scream and not boil. ;-)
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> (At least thats what I meant to say)
{je} connects nouns, not verbs. To better link the two verbs in
meaning, you might choose to repeat the {-jaj} suffix as well.
Okrand also gives us license to replace the second occurance of
a noun with a pronoun. Add it all up and you get:
'IwlIj jachjaj 'ej 'oH pubbe'jaj
Of course, THAT is using the TRADITIONAL grammatical
construction for a toast. Meanwhile, you are not sticking to
the traditional toast itself. Do'Ha'. Humans have frequently
died for such blunders. If you begin with a traditional toast,
it is best to say the toast exactly the way tradition dictates.
The above line may be essentially correct, but it still sounds
like someone seriously blowing a punch line to a joke. The
toast is {'IwlIj jachjaj.} Best leave it alone unless you are
very large, well armed and armored.
Modern Klingon grammar would probably prefer:
pubbe'jaj 'IwlIj 'ej jachjaj 'oH.
I intentionally put the boiling part first so nobody would
mistake it for a misstated traditional toast. If I say this in
a bar, I'd expect to get a few suspicious glances, then they
would decide that I was harmless and continue drinking. If I
said your earlier example, I would not expect to remain
conscious long enough to register their response...
charghwI'