tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 08 07:57:46 1997
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Re: KLBC: Translation Practice
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>Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 18:01:15 -0800
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>January 06, 1997 11:26 PM, jatlh [email protected]:
>
>> My attempts at
>> translating this turned out as: 1. {nI' bIyInjaj 'ej yIchepjaj} "may you
>live
>> long -and- may you be prosperous"
>
>> and 2. {nI'jaj yInwIj 'ej yIchepjaj} "may
>> your life be lengthy -and- may you be prosperous."
>
>Much better! Using {nI'} directly makes much more sense. Careful, though,
>you need to write {bIchepjaj} again. And it's not {yInwIj}, it's {yInlIj}.
>
>nI'jaj yInwIj 'ej bIchepjaj.
yInlIj
FWIW, this is precisely mmy favored translation of "Live long and prosper,"
at least until we had cannon for it (and actually, I think I still like
mine better than Okrand's, though of course his is canon and mine isn't).
>> "Let's go to the lunchroom."
>> meghpa'Daq Ha'.
>
>{Ha'} is not a noun or a verb; it's called an exclamation. It's not meant to
>be used in conjunction with other words. You can use other words you already
>know to do this:
>
>meghpa' wIghoS. Ha'!
>We're going to the lunchroom. Come on!
True enough, though "meghpa'Daq! Ha'!" sounds like pretty good Clipped
Klingon to me. :)
~mark
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