tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 26 06:02:31 1994
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Re: "May you continue to . . . "
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "May you continue to . . . "
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 9:02:16 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Mark J. Reed" at Oct 26, 94 8:16 am
According to Mark J. Reed:
>
>
> This construction popped up when I was trying to compose a birthday message
> for a fellow Hol enthusiast. I wanted something with a Klingon sentiment,
> but as I'm not quite able to think in Klingon, I started with
> English. One line I came up with was "May you continue to live honorably",
> which was problematic to cast in tlhIngan Hol. The obvious
> "batlh *bIyIntaHjaj" is incorrect because it uses a type 7 suffix and "jaj"
> on the same stem (I suspect that it works out to something like
> "May you be living honorably" anyway). But simply "batlh bIyInjaj" doesn't
> carry the intended implication that this is an ongoing action rather than one
> that I would like to see begin.
reH batlh bIyInjaj!
charghwI'