tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 17 19:10:19 1997
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RE: KLBC: More Monopoly
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: More Monopoly
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 97 22:32:20 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Rikterman wrote:
> My interpretation is:
> Mutiny! The traitors must be executed! 40 warriors per Bird of Prey. 115
> warriors per Battle Cruiser.
Wow! Sulu said that a Bird of Prey's crew consisted of a dozen Klingons.
Yours must be pretty big to hold 40!
> My attempt at translating this is:
> qIQ!
Er . . . this sounds like a Clipped command to mutiny . . . How about
{qIQlu'}?
> DamuHnIS maghwI�pu�.
You've got the sentence order backwards. {maghwI'pu' DamuHnIS}.
> loSmaH maghwI�pu� ghaj toQDujmey. wa�vatlh wa�maH
> vagh maghwI�pu�.
. . . ghaj may'Duj.
> I find this a little ambiguous since there seems to be no way to say "per"
or
> "for each". You could easily understand this to meen that out of all your
> Birds of Prey there were 40 traitors. Help?
How about this:
qIQlu'! maghwI'pu' DamuHnIS. Hoch toQDujlIjDaq loSmaH maghwI' tImuH. Hoch
may'DujlIjDaq wa'vatlh wa'maH vagh maghwI' tImuH.
There's been a mutiny! You must execute the traitors. Execute 40 on each
Bird of Prey. Execute 115 on each battle cruiser.
Note: DON'T say {Hoch toQDujmeylIjDaq}. That would mean "On ALL of your Birds
of Prey," which might make one think that 40 is the sum total. By leaving the
plural suffix off, {Hoch toQDujlIjDaq}, you indicate "on EACH of your Birds of
Prey." Same for the battle cruisers.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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