tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 02 15:42:41 1999
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Re: taghwI' qaD
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: taghwI' qaD
- Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 17:42:35 -0500
At 01:39 PM 7/30/99 -0500, Eduardo Fonseca wrote:
>qaD Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
>
>>It struck me as a very Klingon thing to say, somehow. My challenge
>>is, simply, Translate that into tlhIngan Hol.
>
>
>>"No toilet is 100% safe."
>
>
>My first guess is:
>
>QobHa'chu' pagh puch
>
This is how I would translate it, too.
> but It sounds as a klingon proverb
>
>puchDaq Qob Datu'jaj
>reH puchDaq Qob tu'lu'
>reH Qob Hoch puch
>
I don't think of it as a proverb. In the context of the
radio story it was in, it was just an observation someone
was making about a toilet that has the annoying defect of
occasionally sorting out and electrocuting the user.
-- ter'eS