tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 28 23:11:10 2007
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Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for January 25, 2007
- From: pm5 <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for January 25, 2007
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:09:49 +0800
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On 1/27/07, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >qatbot: {ngaj Qapla' ngeD.} (4)
> >Catbert: "Easy come, easy go."
>
> This feels like the perfect place for a proverb. Let me try to find one.
>
> >And there is no word "easily" in Klingon so I have to rephrase the
> >last sentence.
>
> Look at this dialogue from ST5:
>
> KLAA: qIpmeH Qatlh'a'?
> "Difficult to hit?"
>
> VIXIS: Qatlhqu'.
> "Most difficult."
>
> implying {X-meH ngeD} "it is easy to X, to do X easily".
Then:
{SuqmeH ngeDchugh, chIlmeH ngeD.}
"If it is easy to get (it), it is easy to lose (it)."
{cholmeH ngeDchugh, mejmeH ngeD.}
"If it comes easily, it goes easily."
pm5