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Re: A whole 'nother kettle of fish...

bob mcfaddin ([email protected])



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QeS lagh <[email protected]> wrote: 
ja'pu' juDmoS:
>luq. vIta'. 'ach vIta' 'e' chotlhob 'e' yIqaw !

vIqawbej. {{:P

>jIHvaD ghoplIj Danob (you give your hand to me)

pup.

. Nevertheless, your version is still perfect Klingon, and it 
does fit the meter of the song better.

Woohooo!! I got one right!!

>vaj jIHvaD bIjatlh (and then you speak to me) (no word for hello, or greet)

Enlisting Dlorah's comment, here I change vaj to ghIq, so

jIHvaD ghoplIj Danob 

ghIq jIHvaD bIjatlh.

 See if you can come up with a good way of recasting "I can hardly 
speak": I have one in mind, but I don't want to influence your answer. {{:)

tlhoS jIjanglaHbe' je'

nom vIHmo' tIqwIj 

choSuvchu' 'e' DaHar 'e' luyajbej Hoch (better?)

'ach choSovchu'be' 

...it's pretty good. Stylistically, I'd suggest inverting {-be'} and {-chu'}, 
though: {choSovbe'chu'} "you clearly don't know me" preserves the original 
sense a little better than {choSovchu'be'} "it's unclear that you know me".

Well, I was looking at the rule that the rover follows the concept being negated, and following the sense that, while you do in fact know me, you don't perfectly know me.So I was trying to negate only the "perfectly" concept.
>How'm I doin' so far?

Very well! And this is one of my favourite songs. {{:)  (mine too...I just love the gravelly voice of K'ray of the House of Charles...

So, to strike while the iron is still hot and before the fog moves in...

ghobe?, Hoch ram SoHmo? jInaj ?e? DaSovbe? (no, you don't know that you cause me to dream every night)

?uychuq wuSDu?maj 'ej qa?uchqu? ?e? vIneH ?e? DaSovbe? (you don't know that I want to really hold you, and to press our lips together)

SoHvaD juplI? jIH neH DaSovchu'be'mo' (To you I'm only a friend.. because you don't really know me)

For I never knew the art of making love, (half of skill lies in knowing what you can do..the other half lies in knowing what you cannot. I'm not ready to try this one yet.)

SoHvaD parmaqwIjmo? ?oy? tIqwIj My heart aches due to my love for you)

jIyoHbe'mo' jIjaqbe'mo' je'  narghpu' 'ebwIj 'e' vIchawpu'  (Because I was not brave, and because I was not bold, I allowed my chance to escape)

chaq jIHvaD parmaq Daghoj 'e' 'ebwIj 'oH (it is my chance that you perhaps may have love for me..)

Lessee how that went before I try the last verse...


 


 





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