tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 07 08:13:20 2007
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Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for February 2, 2007
At 07:53 AM Wednesday 2/7/2007, pm5 wrote:
>> Boss: "This must be what bonding feels like."
>>
>>I use {Sap} "volunteer" for "apply (a job)".
Don't forget recruit:
ghuv vImoj vIneH.
I want to become a recruit.
chomuvmoH vIneH.
I want you to recruit me.
>> But I don't know how to
>>translate "bonding" in the last sentence. We have {ruStay} "bonding
>>ritual" which is the closest thing I can find.
lay'tel SIvten:
>'Bonding' could be seen as the result of undergoing the bonding ritual.
Something like:
qaSlaw'pu' ruStay. wejpuH.
It seems the bonding-ritual has occurred. Charming!
Another approach for "we have bonded" might be {mararchuqpu'} literally "we
have connected to/with each other" or {matay'choHpu'} "we have become
united"? For "must be what X feels like" just add {-law'} "it seems,
apparently".
Yet another approach is to use {muvtay} "initiation, induction ceremony,
initiation rite":
ruStay 'oHlaw' muvtayvam'e'.
This initiation is apparently a bonding-ritual.
ruStay mojlaw'pu' muvtay.
It seems that an initiation has turned into a bonding-ritual.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons