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Re: Bloody petaQ !! + KLBC



Adrian Luca (Captain Ady) writes:
>ghe''orDaq bIvIHmoH !

"You cause to move in the netherworld."

>jIQuch choHoH !

"I am happy; you kill me."

>{ I wanted to say :
>go where dishonored go !

This is a command, and needs the imperative prefix {yI-}.  "Go" in
this sense is usually translated {ghoS} "approach", and the object
of {ghoS} is itself the destination, so the locative suffix {-Daq}
is unnecessary.

{ghe''or yIghoS!}  Colloquially, "Go to Hell!"

>I am happy to kill you !

Ick.  Klingon doesn't do "am happy to" very well.  This can perhaps
be rephrased without losing the thought too badly:
{qaHoHchugh jIQugh} "If I kill you, I am happy."
{jIQughmeH qaHoH} "I kill you in order to be happy."

Better to pick a different thought, I think:
{batlh qaHoH} "I will kill you with honor."

-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj




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