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Re: KLBC: Qochbe'

ja' qIroS:
>{qaQochbe'} vIjatlhlaHbe'chugh vaj neH wa' nuvvaD chay' *Qochbe'* vIjath?
>
>HoD:           Doq paqvetlh
>wa'DIch:       SuD paqvetlh
>jIH:           HoD Qochbe'!

nap.  SuQochbe' SoH HoD je, qar'a'?  vaj bIjatlh maQochbe' jIH HoD je.

>I guess what im trying to ask is how to say 'i agree with one (and only
>one) specific person' when more than one statement has been made?

If you are doing something "with" another person, then the two of you
are doing it together.  Klingon doesn't have a direct translation for
"with", so you need to phrase the idea differently. "I agree with [him]"
is easily translated into Klingon if you state it as "[He] and I agree."


I'm not so sure that you can't say {qaQochbe'}, though.  Whether or not
it's a grammatically correct thing to say, there's only one thing that
you could have meant by it, and it's easily understood.  If you want to
sound erudite, you should probably eschew it (along with other uses of
the "prefix trick").  If you're just chatting and you get the {qa-} out
before you remember that {Qoch} isn't necessarily transitive, just keep
talking and forget about it.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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