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Re: Translation

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Translation
• Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:40:27 -0500
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Tyler Fisher:
>  Here's a line of dialogue I've translated into Klingon.
>  Tell me if you think I did an okay job:
>
>    {vay' DaSeHlaHbe'bogh DabuSchugh, HoS Danatlh neH
>    'ej jagh DachenmoH.}
>    Thinking about what you can't control only wastes
>    energy and creates its own enemy.

A small suggestion:  I would either omit "its own" or add {-Daj}.  {jagh 
DachenmoH} means only "you create an enemy".  And since {-Daj} could refer 
to any of the nouns {vay'}, {HoS} or {jagh} I'd tag the topic with {-'e'}:

   vay''e' DaSeHlaHbe'bogh DabuSchugh, HoS Danatlh neH 'ej jaghDaj DachenmoH.

Also consider the under-utilized noun {ghol} "opponent, adversary".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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