tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 10 06:49:11 1997
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Re: KLBC : God Defend New Zealand
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC : God Defend New Zealand
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 97 13:15:03 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Norman Thomas wrote:
> > > HaghwI' yImojegh SuStel
> >
> > Looks like "Become yourself a laugher, SuStel."
> >
> > What did you mean?
> >
> I wanted to say "the joke's on you, SuStel" but I think your
> translation of what I wrote is a little more Klingon.
What you wrote wasn't grammatical Klingon. If you use {-'egh} (with a glottal
stop at the beginning, by the way), you won't have an object. {-'egh}
essentially means that the subject is also the object.
In trying to translate this phrase, I keep returning to the word {tIch}. It
seems much closer to the idea of the thing.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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