tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 14 13:36:37 1995
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Confusion and unconditional surrender (was: vocabulary..)
> >jIQoS 'ach jabbI'IDvam lI'nISlu'
> >
> >(is that a passable translation, in context, of, "(Well,) I'm sorry, but
> >someone had to say it.." ?)
>
> toH
> "veqlarghmo' vIghItlh" vImaSqu'
> 'ach bIQoS'a' ... Suqoy'qang'a' qatlh
> toDujbe''a' SoH
Um, I'm confused. I'm going to write what I think this says, but it looks
wrong to me. I don't want to be questioning the writings of my elders and
betters (well, elders, at least ;) but, I'll say it again, I'm confused.
My interpretation:
"veqlarghmo' vIghItlh" vImaSqu'
I prefer "because of the fek'lhr, I wrote it/this"
'ach bIQoS'a' ... SuQoy'qang'a' qatlh
But are you sorry? ... why are you (all) willing to beg?
(this is where I start to get confused: isn't the coexistance
here of the question *qatlh and the question-suffix -'a'
superfluous?)
toDujbe''a' SoH
I don't get this :( ... to me it looks like you stuck a -be, a
verb-suffix, onto a noun. I think what you're asking is "are you
without courage?"
Darn, I hate this. Every time I ask a question here, I get it all wrong
and someone jumps on me (wearing big boots ;) .. Kahless guide me and let
me have it RIGHT for a change! ;)
>
> (cheghqu' Soqra'tIS ... Doghjeyraj vIneH tera'nganpu')
> *snicker* *snicker* }};-p
choghIjbe' ( but then again, maybe that's 'cos I'm Bajoran ;) ...
*slipper*meywIj mojpu' no'lI' SurghDu' ;P
(I wanted to say "I made your ancestors' skins into slippers" but it
didn't seem to work and I had to settle for this more passive translation;
does it make sense to anyone as an insult?)
> vay' yIHub Hoch 'ej Hoch tIHub vay' - DumaS
> -------------------------------------------------
> vIta'pu'be' !!! tlhIngan ghaH *Bart Simpson*'e'
> Soqra'tIS [email protected]
vanya
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