tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 29 06:15:35 1997
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RE: KLBC: Phrases
- From: Irene Gates <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Phrases
- Date: 29 Jan 97 09:13:58 EST
jatlh SuStel:
> [...] jatlh Perry J. Brulotte:
[...]
>> jImuSHa'pu' 'ej jIlujpu' 'e' vImaS. not jImuSHa'pu 'e' vImaSbe'.
>> [Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved.] [...]
> "I have loved, and I prefer that I have failed. I do not prefer that I have
> never loved."
[...]
> Hmmm . . . were you trying to say "I prefer that I have loved and I have
> lost"? We have no evidence that you can do this, but it's not impossible. I
> rather doubt it, though. You can cheat, though:
> jImuSHa'pu' 'ej jIlujpu'. ghu'vam vImaS. not jImuSHa'pu'. ghu'vam vImaSbe'.
> It's pretty clunky. Anyone got a better one?
My entry:
muSHa'lu'chugh 'ach lujlu'chugh, ghu' QaQ law'; not muSHa'lu'chugh, ghu' QaQ
puS.
One could replace {ghu' QaQ} with something more specific, such as {yIn mIp}
(although {mIp} may not carry the same figurative meanings in Klingon that it
does in English).
> Maybe we can start adding more instances of {parmaq}, when it's a
> noun . . .
Don't forget the 'aggressive overtones'. {parmaq vaQHa'}, perhaps -- an
un-Klingonish phrase, but ethereal love is probably an un-Klingonish emotion.
T'Lark