tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 08 11:39:59 1996
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Re: qech vIghaj...
On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Dona Bazley wrote:
> anyone i need an answer by high noon west coast ti,e is this correct if
> not what
>
> DaHjaj Hegh `oH jaj QaQ `e`
> today is a good day to die
We've spent over a year discussing this precise example, and why attempts
such as the one you present are inherently problematic for Klingon.
Rather than try to give you the background on why this is bad, I'll
present one of the *best* examples of how to translate this *sentiment*,
courtesy of charghwI':
DaHjaj batlh jIHeghrup.
If you are interested in seeing more discussion, there's a file of the
history of this problem at the KLI's ftp site:
ftp://ftp.kli.org/pub/Text/Misc/day2die.txt
> Dona Bazley
--Holtej
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