tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 29 07:58:26 2003
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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