tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 10 12:51:04 1997
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Re: First Contact
At 12:15 PM 10/10/97 -0700, you wrote:
>At 09:16 97-10-10 -0700, muHwI' wrote:
>}<Hov leng: qep wa'DIch> bobejta' 'e' vItul.
>}nuq jatlh wo'rIv pIqarD HoDvaD jatlhDI' <... SoHchugh vaj qaHoHqu'> ?
>}
>}I hope you've watched "Star Trek: First Contact".
>}What exactly does Worf say to Picard in the scene:
>}Picard: - You wanna blow up the ship and run away...you coward!
>}Worf: - If you were ... ... ..n, I would kill you were you stand!
>}(I even didn't understand it in English.)
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>I think he says "If you were a Klingon then I would kill you where you
stand."
>That's definitely the idea.
ghobe! He said "If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand!"
SuSvaj
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>}How can I express in Klingon the meaning of "if you WERE..., I WOULD..."?
>}My above sentence translates as "If you ARE, then I WILL..."
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>Sometimes that's good enough.
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>chomaghchugh qaHoH - If you were to betray me I would kill you == If you
>betray me I will kill you.
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>But you're right, in hypotheticals that couldn't happen, it doesn't work
>well. We don't know of a specfic way to say "were ... would" like that in
>Klingon.
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>ghunchu'wI' turns it backwards and says:
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>tlhIngan SoHbe'mo' qaHoHbe' - Because you're not a Klingon, I won't kill you.
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