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Re: [Klingon_Language] need help translating

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: [Klingon_Language] need help translating
• Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:49:41 -0500
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On Dec 12, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:

> Col. Krikor zantai-jechwI' wrote on the Yahoogroups  
> Klingon_Language list:
>> - translations of the following : "Will you play with me, Daddy?"
>
> The verb {reH} "play" is apparently not transitive.  Our only example:
>
>    reH puqpu'
>    The children play. KGT
>
> The "with me" part is tricky.

I don't think it's tricky at all.

   vavoy, mareH'a'?
   Daddy, will we play?

>> I will also need some throwaways like "When will I face the pain
>> sticks" (or whatever one would say before such a ritual)

   ghorgh 'oy'naQ vISIQ?
   When will I endure the painstiks?

   ghorgh muqaD 'oy'naQ?
   When will the painstiks challenge me?

I think everything else Voragh said is right on target.

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