tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 02 20:03:42 2000
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RE: [KLBC]Re: A poem
ja' pagh:
>Next bit: <nuq Daq ta' Sov ghobe'> - "not knowing what to do". This one is
>genuinely hard in Klingon. Klingon just doesn't have grammar analogous to
>this (and neither do some other Earth languages), so you have to rephrase it
>a bit. The most literal thing I can come up with is: <Qu' vIta'nISbogh
>vISovbe'> - "I do not know the task I need to accomplish", but that's
>probably not what you mean. Perhaps someone else on the list has a
>suggestion.
Without knowing what will come next, my first thought is something like
{nuq vIta'nIS} "What must I do?"
Here's another completely different recasting: {jIDeghtaH} "I'm acting
without a plan."
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh