tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 14 10:20:57 1997
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Re: Analysis of new Skybox cards
Alan Anderson wrote:
>
> ja' Qob la':
> >qastaHvIS *Star Trek V*, *Enterprise-A* meqDaq ghumqa'DI' ghum Doq, ja'
> >*Scotty*: "Dochvam vItI'lI' neH jay'!"
>
> "I am merely in the process of repairing this $#@% thing!"
>
> nuqjatlh? Dochvam ja'be'bej *Scotty*!
lu', wot mojaq muj vIlo' 'e' vIlegh. jagh DajeymeH nIteb DaSuvrup!
> I remember the line as "I just fixed the bloody thing!"
> {neH} is the wrong kind of "just" here.
>
> <SIbI' Dochvetlh vItI'ta' jay'!> ja'.
Hmm. It never occured to me to use {SIbI'}. I can see how it works,
though if I had thought it through that way I'd probably have used
{DaH}.
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