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Re: Klingon WOTD: yIv (v)

Lieven (Quvar valer) ([email protected])

• From: Lieven (Quvar valer) <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: yIv (v)
• Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:59:37 +0200
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

I'm messing up my archives:

>>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, October 10, 2002.
>>
>>Klingon word:   yIv
>>Part of Speech: verb
>>Definition:     annoy, bother, irk, irritate
>>
>>Additional Notes:
>>KGT.  (slang).  See also {nuQ}.

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>   The subject of {yIv} can be
>   only a person or creature, not an inanimate object or a situation. Thus,
>   it is inappropriate to say something like {muyIv 'Iw HIq bIr} ("cold
>   bloodwine chews me"). 

what about {nuQ}?
I've translated a song by Faithless "Insomnia" (QonglaHbe'ghach?) into Klingon.
    {munuQtaH maSwov}
    "the moonlight is bothering me"

If it's wrong, then I'll call it a personification or poetic freedom or so...

Quvar.
Beginners' Grammarian

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