tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 23 16:24:48 1999
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Re: jI*interested*be'
: I've been swamped with Spam lately and would like to tell them (in Hol),
: that "I am not interested". I know that the prefix jI' means "I" or "I
: am", and that -be' is "not", but I've not found the adjective
: "interested" anywhere.
:
: --da laffin tlhIngan :>
There is no verb to "be interested", the closest is {Daj} "be interesting"
which refers to the quality of the thing itself, not your reaction to it.
What
you have to do then is say something about the thing that doesn't interest
you:
jIHvaD Dajbe' QInvam'e' (jabbI'IDvam'e').
This message (transmission) does not interest me.
("This message [transmission] is not interesting to/for me.")
or
Dajbe' QInlIj 'e' vIQub.
I think that your message is not interesting.
You might replace {Daj} with its opposite {qetlh} "be dull, be uninteresting"
or even {Dal} "be boring":
Since your transmission is so uninteresting, I will not read it.
qetlhqu'mo' jabbI'IDlIj vIlaDbe'.
or more to the point:
I won't read (any of) your boring message(s).
QIn(mey)lIj Dalbe' vIlaDQo'.
Be creative. If you write in Klingon, you may feel freer to be rude - or
direct, as the Klingons would say. If they can read tlhIngan Hol, they
probably won't be offended.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons