tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 29 15:21:22 1996
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RE: KLBC - Trick or Treat
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC - Trick or Treat
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 96 23:13:20 UT
This is a translation of something we used to say on Halloween when I was 
hanging around with SCAdians:
maHvaD Soj bonobbe'chugh vaj maral!
The original was "Food or violence!"  (It was a great hit with families.  
Really!)  There didn't seem to be any misunderstanding about what sort of food 
we meant . . .
It's a bit long for trick-or-treating.  One should probably clip it:
Soj nobbe'chugh maral!
I don't know exactly how a Klingon would clip it, so I took away only what I 
though added little to the sentence.  The {ma-} prefix was kind of important, 
though.
Personally, I think a Klingon would just walk up to a house, ring the 
doorbell, point his disruptor at the person who answers the door, and say, 
{Soj HInob!}  Or perhaps, more appropriately, {yuch HInob!}  If they don't 
have chocolate, well, that's a shame . . .
SuStel
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