tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 15 22:19:43 1997
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Re: "Good night."
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "Good night."
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 01:20:08 -0400 ()
- Priority: NORMAL
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 05:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Bjorn X Oqvist
<[email protected]> wrote:
> If I want to say "Good night" in klingon, should I do it exactly as in
> english? (adjetive - noun).
>
> {ram QaQ.}
>
> Or should I say "The night is good":
>
> {QaQ ram.}
Neither. You should say:
DaH yIQong!
> What do we actually mean when we say "Good night?" - I thought about it
> and
> realized that when we say "Happy birthday." we definetly *do no* mean
> that
> the day itself is happy, but rather something along the line "May you be
> happy on your birthday.":
>
> {qoSwIj jIQuchjaj.}
Ummm. Look at that again.
qoSlIj yItIv!
> /'eQ
>
> --
> Bjorn X Oqvist KLI(#H2014) WCT(#491)
> [email protected] http://www.kuai.se/~dark
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