tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 26 05:20:51 2000
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Re: quote from Ghenghis Khan
- From: "David Yeung" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: quote from Ghenghis Khan 
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:28:02 -0500
>ja' De'vID:
>
>> When I saw this quote I just had to restore it 
>> to the original Klingon:
>>[...]
qa'ral:
>qatlho', De'vID.  A noble and uplifting passage.  nuqDaq Datu'?
ben, qun vIHaDtaHvIS mu'meyvam vIlaD.  ngugh
le'be' mu'meyvam.  qen "e-mail signature"Daq mu'meyvam
vIleghqa'.  vIqawmoHlu'.  tlhIngan Hol vIqeq vIneHmo'
vImugh.
I was hoping someone would comment on the grammar,
actually, since I didn't know how to express infinitives
except to put them in second person.  (Now that I 
think about it, in Hamlet's "To be or not to be" it was 
done in third person.)
--
De'vID