tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 24 13:38:51 2003
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Re: Drinking songs
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Se'noj le'umaS wrote:
> Comrades in death, in death we live!
> Drink up, my brothers, tomorrow we give!
> Death to the humans! Death to the foe!
> Death to the Romulans! Strike a deadly blow!
>
> This may be a fun one to translate. I can get:
>
> HeghDaq juppu', HeghDaq mayIn!
> Huch tlhutlh, loDnI'wI', wa'leS manob!
> tera'nganpu'vaD Hegh Danob! jaghvaD Hegh Danob!
> romuluSnganpu'vaD Hegh Danob! yImupqu'!
>
> The last two lines seem a bit long, though.
They can be simplified with the verb form of { Hegh } --
Hegh romuluSngan wIneH!
"We want Romulans to die."
Or even
HeghnIS romuluSngan
"Romulans need to die."
The plural suffix isn't really necessary, I don't think.
...Paul
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