tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 12 15:47:08 1996
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Re: KLBC: You can't get there from here...
- From: "Adrian (HurghwI')" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: You can't get there from here...
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 17:48:01 -0600
At 10:48 AM 11/12/96 -0800, you wrote:
>I was trying to come up with a translation for "you can't get there from
>here" on my way home for lunch. I guess it wouldn't be a particularly
>Klingon thing to say, unless, of course, the Klingon was from Maine or
>Vermont....
>
>K: Daqvam SoHchugh, vaj Daqvetlh DaghoSlaHbe'.
>or
>K: naDev SoHchugh, vaj pa' DaghoSlaHbe'.
>
>E: If you are here, you can't go there.
>
>or perhaps I should use <leng> as the verb???
If I were to come up with this, I would say:
pa' bIjaHmeH naDev bItaghlaHbe'
"In order to go there, you can't start here."
>I like the ring of the >Daqvam</>Daqvetlh< version better than the
>>naDev</>pa'< version. I'd like to get rid of the whole "if" part of it.
>Is there a way to express from/to in Klingon?
>
>QaHrajvaD qatlho'.
>96867.2
>Perry J. Brulotte
>[email protected]
-Adrian K (aka HurghwI')
Stardate 96866.5
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