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Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for 2006/10/26

pm5 ([email protected])



On 11/3/06, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> pm5 wrote:
> >ratbot:  Hoch to'meywIj DaHachmeH wanI' DapabHa' 'e' vISaH.
> >Ratbert: "I worried that all of my wisdom is derived from
> >           bad analogies."
>
> I'm not sure I understand your Klingon here - "you misfollow an event in
> order for you are developed all my tactics"?

I used the wrong prefix.  I was meant to say {Hoch to'meywIj vIHachmeH wanI'
vIpabHa'} "I misfollowed experiences in order to develop all my tactics", which
is still wrong because {Hach} doesn't take objects.

> here.  {chen} "build up, take form, take shape" might be better.

Agreed.

> I do like {pabHa'} "misfollow (the rules), follow (the rules) wrongly" but
> I'm not sure how we can work it to render "derived from bad analogies".
> Maybe the two can be combined:
>
>    pabHa' chenpu'bogh Hoch SovwIj 'e' vISaH.

Can knowledge take form and misfollow the rules itself, or must someone form
knowledge and while doing so, misfollowed the rules?

    {Hoch SovwIj vIchenpu'DI vIpabHa' 'e' vISaH.}

pm5





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