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Re: Have a nice day!



ja' SuStel:
>...Just as we might
>translate "Which ale do you want?" into {HIq DaneHbogh yIngu'}, so might a
>Vulcan phrase have changed from something else to an imperative.  Or it
>might not have.

ja' ~mark:
>And that's exactly it.  Since when do we translate phrasing and not the
>meaning?
>...
>But the Klingon "surrender or die" didn't seem to have survived so
>verbatim.  Why should Vulcan have?

jagh DajeymeH nIteb yISuvrup.

jIchuSpu'.  jIghoHpu'.  ghaqbe'pu' qechwIj.
qech vImughtaHvIS, Hol vImaghchoHpu'.  jI...tlhIj.

SKI:  Sorry for the extended -- and unnecessary -- arguments.

-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh




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