tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 25 15:59:11 1996

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing

• Index by Date
• Index by Thread
• Index by Author

RE: KLBC: nuq

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: KLBC: nuq
• Date: Mon, 25 Nov 96 23:19:05 UT

jatlh HurghwI':

>  >>  chay' "should" jatlhlu'?
>  >nuq Daja' DaneH'a'?  rut mughlu'meH, <-nIS> jatlhlu'.  'ach rut jaS 
jatlhlu'.
>  >wa' mu' neH yImughQo'!
>  
>  "I should send thank-you-notes." vIngeHnISbe'.

nuqjatlh?!?

>  qatlh rut <<jaS>> vIjatlh?
>  wa' mu' neH vImughbe', 'ach qech naQ ghajbe'law' tlhIngan Hol.

Okay, I'll explain in English.  I'm not going to tell you "this is how you 
translate the word 'should' into Klingon."  How you translate it will depend 
on the situation and context.  (I didn't put the word {jaS} in brackets for a 
reason: it wasn't a quote, it meant "Sometimes someone will say it 
differently.")

There isn't always a one-for-one correspondence between how you say something 
in Klingon and how you say it in English.  Communicate, don't just translate.

SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 96903.4

• Prev by Date: Re: A Klingon Practice Program
• Next by Date: RE: KLBC: Act I scene i oversight
• Prev by thread: RE: KLBC: nuq
• Next by thread: RE: KLBC: nuq
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread
  • Author

Back to archive top level