tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 01 12:53:31 2002
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RE: yaywIj yIngaq!
- From: "Agnieszka Solska" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: yaywIj yIngaq!
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 17:41:58
lab Will:
:... in Conversational Klingon, we are told that a Klingon
:may be inaccurate, but he is NEVER approximate. The proverb
:says "Four thousand throats can be slit in one night by a running
:man." It doesn't say, "A whole lot of throats can be cut in one night
:by a running man." While I don't really care how many days ago you did
:this if you don't have a specific number, I'd still rather hear a
:specific number than {Hu' law'}.
pIj teH vIttlheghmey, rut wIch bIHlaw'.
pIj tlhIngan Delchu' vIttlheghvam 'ach rut qarbe'bej.
tlhIngan Holmo' vuDvam vImaq. mu'mey {'op}, {law'}, {puS}, {vay'} je ghaj.
mojaqmey {-lu'}, {-law'}, {-Hey} ghaj je. nepbe'meH mu'meyvam mojaqmeyvam je
lo'nIS tlhInganpu'.
: ...
:I'd still recommend that you just make up a number
:that is on the same order of magnitude as the real, though unknown,
:number and say it was that many days ago.
:If you make up another number later and they don't match and someone
:comes along and whines, "But you said it was X days ago," then the
:Klingon response is simple: Weed him out of the gene pool. And if you
:are trying to comply with local regulations about not killing people
:without having a really good reason, just ignore him like the Glob Fly
:he resembles.
"he" jIHbe'. 'ach ghIlab ghew vIrur 'e' jatlhchugh vay' vaj wa'vatlh
joQDu'Daj vIghor 'ej porghDajvo' loS qIvonDu' vIluH 'ej vItapchu' jay'!
'ISqu'
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