tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 21 11:01:59 1997
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KLBC: that old joke
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- Subject: KLBC: that old joke
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 14:01:26 -0400 (EDT)
Maybe somebody did this before, but it seemed a good exercice to me.
ghItlh ghunchu'wI'
> There's an old joke that relies on this idiomatic ambiguity:
> "How can a chicken sandwich be better than complete happiness? Well,
> nothing is better than complete happiness, but a chicken sandwich is
> certainly better than nothing."
{chorgh qagh QaQ law' quv QaQ puS}
(when ghagh better than honor?)
{DaH qaja'}
(now I tell you:)
{pagh QaQ law' quv QaQ puS} (?)
{Doch QaQ law' tu'lu'be'} (?)
This makes me hesitate...
It sounds like "nothing is BETTER than honor"
But the meaning is that there is NOTHING better than honor,...see?
{qagh QaQ law' pagh QaQ puS}
can I use this for "better"?
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