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Re: KLBC: How would you say.... ....in Klingon?



> >> I have got to go.
> >jIjaHnIS.
> 
> Literally, "I need to walk". Not quite the same. If you need "I gotta
> go", like you need to leave the place, use the verb {mej} "leave,
> depart": 
>    {jImejnIS} "I need to leave"
> If you want to let it sound more "Klingon", say it more strength:
>    {DaH jImej} "I leave now!"

yIt - walk
jaH - go
mej - leave, depart
tlheD - depart


> There is a sentence on one of the tapes which sounds 
> {cha'logh juHlIjDaq jISop 'e' yIchaw'neS} 
> "allow me to eat at your house twice, your honor"
> = i.e. "the food is good, please invite me again"
> 
> (I hope I missed nothing, I don't have the transcript next to me)

From the tape:
>>>
It would be an honor to eat twice here at your house, your Honor.
naDev juHlIjDaq cha'logh jISopneSchugh vaj jIquv
<<<


DloraH


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