tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 27 14:25:49 2005

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing

• Index by Date
• Index by Thread
• Index by Author

Re: bInIvqu'bej

Teresh000 ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: bInIvqu'bej
• Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:25:04 +0000

ghItlh naHQun:

>
>joH'a', QunwI'; jISIvlu'bejqu'taHvIS
>Hoch qo'mey DachenmoHchu' vIqellI'
>Hovmey vIlegh, jevbejwI' wab'a' vIQoy
>lu'aghqu'ba'taH 'u'Daq HoS'a'lIj; 
>ngugh qa?wI' bomchoHchu' toDwI'wI'mo'
>bInIv qu'bej bInIvqu'bej
>ngugh qa?wI' bomchoHchu' toDwI'wI'mo'
>bInIvqu'bej bInIvqu'bej

maj; it scans pretty well with the original. 
Oddly enough, we were looking at this song
at choir practice last night!

One quibble: it's probably {qa'wIj}; I don't
think one's spirit is considered capable
of speech. Fortunately, it doesn't affect
the meter.

You might consider a replacement for
{ngugh}, too. The song says that you are
moved to sing after your contemplation,
for which I think {ghIq} is more appropriate.
{ghIq} 'then' leads into the consequence
of what came before; {ngugh} 'then' is just
a timestamp.

Sorry, one more: in the second line, it
should be {DachenmoHbogh}; otherwise you
have two main verbs in one sentence.

-- ter'eS

• Follow-Ups:
  • RE: bInIvqu'bej
    • From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>

• Prev by Date: Re: "Table of Contents" in Klingon?
• Next by Date: Re: tera'nganpu'
• Previous by thread: Re: "Table of Contents" in Klingon?
• Next by thread: RE: bInIvqu'bej
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread
  • Author

Back to archive top level