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Re: MSN jabbI'ID labwI' lo'wI'pu'

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: MSN jabbI'ID labwI' lo'wI'pu'
• Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:22:12 -0600
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Voragh:
> >>The problem with this classic joke is that you can't translate it
> >>ambiguously.
> >>
> >>    Yesterday I shot a bear wearing my pajamas.
> >>    (Why he was wearing my pajamas, I'll never know!)
> >
> >D'oH!  It just occurred to me that the way to preserve most of the joke is
> >to change the actor, and thus the ambiguity, from the speaker to someone 
> else:
> >
> >   wa'Hu' nIvnavDaj tuQtaHvIS mIl'oDDaq bach jIlwIj.
> >   Yesterday my neighbor shot a sabre bear while (it/he was)
> >   wearing his pajamas.
> >
> >   qatlh nIvnavDaj tuQ mIl'oD?  not jISov!
> >   Why was the bear wearing his pajamas?  I'll never know!
> >
> >It's almost the same joke, though you do have to think about it for a 
> minute.

DloraH:
>HolQeD 4:2, pg 5,6 MO tells us:
> >>>
>...that old Groucho Marx joke, you know, "I just shot an elephant in my
>pajamas... and how he got in my pajamas I'll never know."  You can say 
>that in
>Klingon, no problem; they'll get the joke.  There's not many jokes you can 
>get
>to translate into Klingon, but that one would work."
><<<

qaSlaw' nIbpoH!
(I thought this discussion sounded familiar!)



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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