tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 12 11:03:55 2003
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Fw: Klingon Humor
- From: "Scott Willis" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Fw: Klingon Humor
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:09:44 -0500
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "christoph.pichlmann" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:36 AM
> Subject: Re: Klingon Humor
>
>
> Greetings!
>
> I wanted to congratulate you to your joke, I fell off the chair
> laughingly when I read it.
{choquvmoH}
> Yet I do not completely understand the ending - why should the merchant
> first laugh and then kill the Terran?
{Hagh Suy net pIHbe'mo'.}
> Wouldn t it make more sense to
> say that the merchant got angry and killed the Terran?
{HIja', 'ach wanI'vetlh pIHlu'.}
> So, I would replace >Hagh Suy, ghIq tera'ngan HoH< with >QeHchoH Suy
> 'ej tera'ngan HoH< or similar.
ghotpu' vIHaghmoH 'e' vIHaD, *comedy magician* ( tojwI' tlhaQ, tojbogh
tlhaQwI' ghap) jIHmo'. (*It depends on what you think of my
performances!*) }}: )
tlhaQ neHlu'chugh, vaj tIqbe'bogh mu'tlheghmey chennISmoHlu', 'ej laDwI'
mernISlu' 'e' vIghojta'.
mu'tlheghvetlh vIwIvmeH latlh meq:
*symmetry* ghaj mu'tlheghwIj.
Human yab belmoH *symmetry*
qa'ang:
mu'tlheghwIj:
{Hagh Suy, ghIq tera'ngan HoH.}
(wot nap, DIp, *adverb*, DIp, wot nap)
vagh mu'mey, cha' wotmey nap.
tIqbe', 'ej *symmetry* ghaj.
mu'tlheghlIj:
{QeHchoH Suy, ghIq tera'ngan HoH.}
(mojaq ghajbogh wot, DIp, *adverb*, DIp, wot nap)
vagh mu'mey, wa' wot nap, wa' mojaq ghajbogh wot.
mu'tlheghlIj tIq law', mu'tlheghwIj tIq puS.
*symmetry* ghajbe' 'ej QeHchoH Suy net pIH.
(Doghlaw' 'e' vISov. 'ach *magician* vIDataHvIS, jItlhaQbe'chugh, vaj
jISopbe'!)
*Thank you very much for your compliment. I'm glad somebody enjoyed it.*
--ngabwI'
HovpoH 699659.5