tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 09 11:01:36 1997
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RE: "Way of the Warrior" song in Klingon
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: "Way of the Warrior" song in Klingon
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 97 18:09:39 UT
jatlh Voragh:
> EJ IM-TA FEY DE-JA I...
> EJADAHK-SO-TAS GHOS VA SKRAL BYTEEK
> EMPA JAJ LAW-MOCH JAJ-PUSH
> JAJ KAYLESS MOLOR-MIGH HOHK-CHEW KOO
>
> This is translated in Diane Carey's novelization as:
>
> And the blood was ankle deep...
> And the River Skral ran crimson red
> On the day above all days
> When Kahless slew evil Molor dead.
> Some of the least obvious from the song are (I think):
>
> I... 'Iw blood
> EJADAHK 'ej Doq and red
> SKRAL BYTEEK *SIQal bIQtIq the River Skral
> HOHK-CHEW KOO HoHchu'qu' slew him dead
What really frightens me is that there's a law'/puS in exactly the same place
that Diane Carey gives "On the day above all days." Of course, it's a
completely ungrammatical law'/puS, but it has {jaj} in it, and someone
obviously had read enough of TKD to realize that this is how comparatives are
done!
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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