tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 03 20:57:57 1996
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Re: Hobbies + KLBC
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Hobbies + KLBC
- Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 23:00:50 -0500
nuqHm writes:
>You think you guys (and guy-esses) have problems explaining that you are
>honourably learning tlhIngan Hol - I work in a student bar !
Is this a bar for students in general, one staffed by student bartenders,
or what?
>Half the punters (I'd like a translation of "PUNTER" - as in customer, but
>slightly more patronizing please !), think that I'm a total BOZO, and the
>other half ARE total bozos !
Hmm... The bozos are the ones that *don't* think you are a bozo? :-)
>OK - now for the KLBC bit...
>
>chom jIH - I'm a bartender
maj.
>chomghojwI' jIH - I'm a student bartender (ambiguous - I'm a student and a
> bartender and/or I'm a bartender in a student bar)
>I'm sure this is OK...
More like "I'm studying to be a bartender," I think. Ambiguous indeed.
>wa' HIq HInob ! - Give me a beer !
"Give me one beer." I'd drop the {wa'}. Then it might mean either
"Give me beer" or "give me a beer" or "give me the beer," all fine.
>Now for what I tend to use at 11:20 p.m. ...
>
>naDevvo' yIghoS - <excuse me is I paraphrase> - You (singular) Bugger Off
> Home !
>and...
>
>naDevvo' peghoS - <ditto but plural BOZO PUNTERS !>
>
>Oddly enough, the last two seem to work !
They should -- they're better than what we usually get from the TV show.