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RE: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for August 25, 2007

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



po'mIn:
> >>Big Boss: "A mysterious buyer offered a million dollars for the right
> >>           to decrease our goodwill."
> >>pIn'a':   {quvwIj nuplaHbogh DIb'e' DIlmeH wa''uy' DeQmey nunob
> >>           qabDaj 'angbe'bogh je'wI''e' .}

Voragh:
> > I like the imagery of someone who doesn't show his face - remember the
> > veiled Valkris in ST3? - but for Klingons that phrase implies someone
> > dishonorable, not mysterious.
> > ...
> > Try {pIH} "be suspicious" or {nub} "be suspect" instead.
>...
> > If you really want to use an idiom to imply that there's something
> > fishy about this buyer, try {qagh Sopbe'} "He doesn't eat gagh!":

DloraH:
>How about using ngu'?
>ngu'lu'be'bogh

or {Sovbe'lu'bogh} "unknown":

   loS... qIb HeHDaq, 'u' SepmeyDaq Sovbe'lu'bogh lenglu'meH He ghoSlu'bogh
    retlhDaq 'oHtaH
   It waits... on the edge of the galaxy, beside a passage to unknown regions
    of the universe. DS99



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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