tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 23 20:57:30 1999
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Re: jI*interested*be'
- From: Ed Heil <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: jI*interested*be'
- Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 21:58:17 -0600
Please note that there is a site (spamcop.net) that you can use as a
weapon against spammers. It will automatically write letters of
complaint for you to the spammers' ISPs, which frequently results in
their accounts being shut down. I have personally got several
spammers shut down this way.
And there is a place on the form where you can include your own
message, which you could indeed write in thlIngan Hol. :)
Why just talk, when you can slam them for real as well?
Ed Heil -------------------------------- [email protected]
"QuchwIj Dayachqang'a' bang?"
(KHOOCH-widge da-YATCH-kang-a BANG?)
Klingon for "Want to stroke my forehead, babe?"
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Steven Boozer wrote:
> : 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
>