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RE: meaty translation

• From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: meaty translation
• Date: 27 Mar 97 07:50:08 EST

ghItlh SuStel:
>jatlh qoror:

> 	qoror here.  Here's a quickie:
> 
> 	maHmo' He'qu' qach?
> 	It's our fault the building stinks?

You forgot the question suffix:

maHmo' He'So''a' qach?

{He'So'} is a word you can use to mean "stink."<

Yes, but it isn't phrased as a question in English, and so it isn't in Klingon
either.  I think that the intonation of the sentence would explain it just as in
English.  --qoror

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