tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 10 00:39:09 1996
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Re: KLBC: Hurrah!
- From: [email protected] (HoD trI'Qal)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Hurrah!
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 23:56:58 -0400
As BG, it is my right and perogative to use anyone's Klingon grammar errors
as an example... and charghwI' goofs up so *rarely* that I couldn't resist
commenting. However, this was a really common error, so...
I put my response in Klingon, in hopes that our beginning students will use
it as an exercise to practice back-translating from Klingon to English...
At 06:08 PM 9/2/96 -0700, William H. Martin wrote:
[...]
>> >chol poH 'e'
>> ?chol wanI' poH?
>> "The time of this event is drawing near."
>>
>> I put ??s around this, because this, too, may be "idiomatic" (in fact, I am
>> pretty sure it is). I'm not sure if the idea of a "time approaching" is not
>> something found just in English, or if it is "global". I would suggest
>> re-casting this to "Soon this event will occur":
>>
>> tugh qaS wanI'vam
>
>MUCH better. maQochqa'ba'.
DaH jImISbej.
mu'meywIj DanaDbej, 'ach <maQochqa'ba'> DaghItlhpu'.
chaq bIghItlhHa'...
chaq <maQoghbe'qa'ba'> DaHech, qar'a'?
>charghwI'
--tQ, who hopes charghwI' will not take offense at her doing this this way...
Translations:
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Now I am really confused.
You are definitely praising me, but you wrote "we obviously disagree again".
Perhaps you mis-wrote...
Perhaps you mean "we obviously AGREE again"?
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