tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 05 21:05:49 1998
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RE: KLBC Shakespears Sisters lyrics.
Zrajm jang pagh:
>> You better hope and pray that you wake one day in your own world.
>> {wa' jaj qo'lIjDaq bIvem; 'e' Datul 'ej 'e' Daqoy'.}
>
>Same comments as above about <'e' Datul 'ej Daqoy'>.
>
>> Perhaps there is a better/easier way to say "some time", "any
>> day" or "in the future"? Otherwise what I said about the previous
>> sentence pretty much applies here too.. (I think I am saying
>> something like "One day, you in your realm will wake, you hope
>> that and you beg (for) that."
>
>Oh, my. <wa' jaj> just does not work. Klingon does not really have a way to
>say "someday". The only general word for "in the future" is <tugh> - soon.
>Other than that, you probably need to use <leS> or <nem> to specify when the
>event is going to happen.
As it happens, {wa' jaj} *does* work. The Klingon Way, page 177:
wa' jaj 'etlh 'uchchoHlaH tlhIngan puqloD; jajvetlh loD nen moj.
The son of a Klingon is a man the day he can first hold a blade.
-- ghunchu'wI'