tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 02 21:03:09 1997
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Re: KLBC:some sentences
ja' Qov:
>}ja'be'ghach vI'Ip I vow not to tell
>
>I'm guessing you are aiming at a literal meaning like "I swear the act of
>not telling." Use the Klingon sentence-as-object tool to say "I swear that
>I won't tell." {jIja'be' 'e' vI'Ip} If reading section 6.2.5 doesn't make
>it clear how that works, follow up and ask.
Don't forget the secrecy proverbs from Power Klingon! They're idiomatic,
but they're perfect for expressing the idea here. Part of what makes a
language distinctive is the not-quite-literal interpretations of certain
phrases, like {not mev peghmey} or {jIjatlhpa' jatlh Hovmey}. Each of
these proverbs indicates that the person saying them expects to be trusted
with a secret, and the person being spoken to is supposed to honor that
expectation.
-- ghunchu'wI'