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RE: Quote translation

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: Quote translation
• Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 13:58:08 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>jatlh DloraH
>>In Okrand's book "The Klingon Way", p95 we have:
>>
>>QamvIS Hegh qaq law' torvIS yIn qaq puS.
>>Better to die on our feet than live on our knees.
>>("Dying while standing is preferable to living while kneeling.")
>>["The grammatical construction is a bit aberrant; one would expect QamtaHvIS
>>and tortaHvIS.  In proverbs, grammatical shortcuts are not uncommon."]

Se'noj:
>SatlhIj, I didn't realise that it had been put in a book before, I don't 
>have that one.

Actually, Brigadier Kerla said it to acting-Chancellor Azetbur in ST6.  The 
actor dropped the {-taH} before the {-vIS}, which is why Okrand had to 
scramble to explain the "aberrant" grammar.



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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