tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 16 07:49:31 1997
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Re: KLBC
>Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 15:51:14 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>> bIyeqneS'a' yIjatlh
>> *terran*.
>
>"Do you need to cooperate? speak terran" Don't be afraid to use punctuation.
>What do you mean here? What about cooperation? Also, the word for Terran is
>{tera'ngan}.
"bIyeqneS'a'" is not "do you need to cooperate," it is "Will you cooperate,
your honor?" It's here being used based on someone's (ter'eS'?) use of it
as a translation for "please" (yielding an example of why it doesn't
translate "please" too well). I think there's word-order going again:
"please, speak terran". Should have been "DIvI' Hol yIjatlh" (DIvI' Hol is
the usual idiom for English/Federation Standard, not tera'ngan Hol).
~mark