tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 06 02:50:54 1999
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RE: KLBC: yIHnaQ
On 06-Mar-99, Andeen, Eric wrote:
>Welcome to the list, Jeremy. My name is pagh, and I am the current
>Beginners' Grammarian. It's my job to help beginners learn Klingon. I
>respond to KLBC messages with grammatical corrections and advice. Before I
>respond, anyone else is free to post a response to the content of the
>message, but in order to avoid a flood of possibly conflicting and incorrect
>advice, the grammar is off limits. After I respond, anyone is free to
>comment.
Good to meet you.
Fair enough, I wont do it again. Besides I dont claim to be an expert in
Klingon grammer, hell not even kippers.
>> I think what he had in mind was "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for
>> breakfast".
>toH! DaH jIyajchu'.
Glad Im able to help with some things.
>> Well here is my effort at the Cry Havoc quote for your dissection:
>> QIH yIjach 'ej veS Ha'DIbaHmey DajonHa'
>You need the <yI-> prefix on the <jon> as well, and <QIH yIjach> is a little
>odd, but otherwise, this is fine for a literal translation. <targh> is
>probably better than just <Ha'DIbaH> here as well.
In the end I wasnt too happy with just QIH on its own. Would it be possible to
compound a noun {QIH'a'} (total destruction?) with {mIS'a'} (chaos?)? How
would it be less odd?
I used Ha'DIbaH in the sense of "dog, cur, inferior person". Does that make it
"wrong", or just not as right. I reckon I should have used -pu' instead if
-mey though to make this interpretation clearer. More Mercenaries, not war
targs.
>I reccommend beginners stay well away from translating poetry (including
>song lyrics).
I reckon I learned my lesson here too, but I enjoyed the challenge of trying.
Thanks for putting me right.
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