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TKW, a personal note

• From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
• Subject: TKW, a personal note
• Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 21:36:37 -0400
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I received "The Klingon Way" today.  Reading along, I couldn't help but 
smile reading "reH lugh charghwI'", and feeling a bit jealous that it fits 
him so well.  :)

And then, on page 151, we find:

"You have chosen  your weapon, so fight!"
nuHlIj DawIvpu', vaj yISuv!

This struck a chord, and so I went back into the archives.  And I found it:

   On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, hfp95118 wrote:

   > In my study of Russian I have encountered the idiomatic translation of 
   > the english expression "You've made your bed - now lie in it!" , which 
is
   > (delightfully) "You've called yourself a mushroom - now get in the
   > basket!"
   >
   > Discussing it with qSeroHS, he wondered how a Klingon would express 
this.

   You've chosen your weapon; now fight!

   nuHlIj DawIvta'; DaH yISuv!

   > vanya.

   --Holtej

Okrand, are you here?  ;)

--Holtej

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