tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 14 16:54:16 1999
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Re: IDIC
[email protected] writes:
>How do you say "Happy Chinese New Year" in Klingon. I can't find out.
The answer is simple. You *don't* say it in Klingon. You have to say
it in another language, or say something else in Klingon. Some things
you might want to say in Klingon instead:
"Chinese" DIS chu' DatIvjaj
"may you enjoy the new year of the Chinese"
DuQuchmoHjaj "Chinese" DIS chu'
"may the new year of the Chinese make you happy"
maj. "Chinese"-vaD chu' DIS
"good, the year is new for the Chinese}
I'm using the word "Chinese" as a noun referring to a group of people, not
as an adjective (as it appears to be in the English phrase). I could have
chosen to say {"China" ngan} "inhabitant of China". Some people might even
want to render it as {chaynangan}, but I think transliterating the English
pronunciation of "China" into Klingon spelling is more confusing than it's
worth.
-- ghunchu'wI'