tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 11 17:17:13 2008
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Re: I don't work here!
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: I don't work here!
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:15:46 -0700 (PDT)
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tlhIngan Hol Dalo'chugh, vaj bIjatlhDI' qanwI' mIS law', bIjatlhpa' qanwI' mIS puS!
-- ter'eS
--- On Thu, 9/11/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: I don't work here!
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 6:14 PM
> So I spend my nights delivering medications to nursing
> homes. And more often than I'd like, old people start
> asking me questions-questions that I don't have answers
> to. And per company policy, I'm not really supposed to
> do much interacting with the residents.
> It is common for people to say "I don't work
> here" when mistaken for an employee, but I'm not
> quite sure how to say it in Klingon.
>
> A simple dictionary lookup gives me 3 words for
> "work": baj, Qap, and vum.
>
> baj-earn, work for (actively)
>
> Qap-work, function, succeed, operate, be in operation
>
> vum-work, toil
>
> At first baj looks spot on:
> malja'vam vIbajbe' (I don't work for this
> business).
> But the full definition makes it clear that I'm to be
> working towards a goal.
>
> As for the other two, I do indeed function, toil, and work
> *at* these places.
>
> Am I missing an obvious workaround?
>
> ~naHQun
>
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