tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 03 14:51:08 2002
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RE: pabmey nap pagh napHa' - naDevvo'
Stephan wrote:
> > i thought that f*** off [sic] means "go away", doesn't it? so i see
> > two ways: "go away and mate with yourself" or "while mating yourself,
> > go away". anyway, there should be some "away" in there, shouldn't it?
True enough. We were all being a bit over-literal.
DloraH:
>That's what the person means, but to use -vo' you're going to need a verb of
>motion. I just don't see -vo' working with ngagh.
One of the many glosses of the general verb of motion {ghoS} is, in fact,
"go away from". It shows up in this meaning in TKD's List of Useful
Expressions:
naDev yIghoS
Come here!
naDevvo' yIghoS
Go away!
So to add the proper feeling, we add the all-purpose expletive adverb
{jay'} "intensely" at the end:
naDevvo' yIghoS jay'!
F*** off!
Other verbs you can use are {mej} "leave, depart" and {tlheD} "depart".
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons