tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 07 23:11:27 2000
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RE: A challenge
majQa'. bIval 'e' Datobqa'.
charghwI'
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Anderson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 9:25 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: A challenge
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> ja' charghwI':
> >How would you propose to translate the following sentence?
> >
> >"It is not too dark for me to find the path to my home."
>
> This idea runs into what I think is the one truly weak area of Klingon
> grammar. You're trying to express the negation of something which is
> not true, and I've found that Klingon works better if you just say what
> *is* true.
>
> Hurghqu'bej, 'ach juHwIj He vISamlaH.
>
> -- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh
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