tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jul 26 12:18:45 1997
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Re: Space Cadets
>That Space Cadets promotional spiel was composed by myself, Alex Greene...
qatIch 'e' vIHechbe', 'ach jIQuch, ghItlhvetlh pabqoq vIlajnISbe'mo'.
Don't get me wrong, but I am gratified that the (ahem) "creative" grammar
presented there doesn't have to be taken as correct.
>But next time I get a job like this to do, I hope I'll have enough time
>to check up on what's hot on the mailing list first.
rurbogh Qu' Data'nISqa'DI' jutlhobchugh qaqbej.
That would probably be a good thing.
>Finally, does the author of the Klingon translation of the 23rd Pslam
>now have to rewrite the line from "Yea, though I walk through the valley
>of the shadow of death" to incorporate <vegh>? It would seem that <vegh>
>qualifies for walking through a valley, it being somewhat similar to
>passing through a tunnel.
wejpuH.
No, I don't think so. Walking through a metaphorical valley is *not*
passing through an opening from one place to another. Passing through
a valley is like passing through a forest, to which {vegh} does not apply.
-- ghunchu'wI'