tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 29 12:05:58 2009
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Re: pIqaD bom
- From: "Michael Roney, Jr." <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: pIqaD bom
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:01:41 -0400
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Interesting. You placed qagh- on a previously unknown-to-me note.
And introduced yet another English ending.
I'm starting to think that no one sings this song the same way (I was introduced to a peculiar UK version last night).
~naHQun
-Michael Roney, Jr.
Professional Klingon translator
http://twitter.com/roneyii
--Sent from my Palm PrÄ?Renee Scherer wrote:
Quite true--sorry. How's this?
http://s919.photobucket.com/albums/ad31/tlharin/?action=view&current=KLI_alphabet_song.jpg
--R
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Michael Roney, Jr. <[email protected]>wrote:
> Sadly this is a plain text list.
> You'll have to post the pic somewhere and link to it.
> Flickr or Photobucket would work.
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> ~naHQun
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> -Michael Roney, Jr.
> Professional Klingon translator
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> --Sent from my Palm PrÄ?Renee Scherer wrote:
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> If anyone else is more visual, I placed the originally-suggested mapping
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> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Michael Roney, Jr. &lt;[email protected]<lt%[email protected]>
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> > My line breaks or pauses are just the way my brain processes the song.
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> > If it doesn't make sense, just break them somewhere else.
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> > --Sent from my Palm PrÄ?Mark J. Reed wrote:
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> > 'at bay chay Day 'et ghay Hay'It jay lay may
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> > On 7/29/09, Michael Roney, Jr. &amp;lt;[email protected]<amp%3Blt%[email protected]>
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> > > --Sent from my Palm PrÄ?Steven Boozer wrote:
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> > >>Not getting the scansion. I learned the English as follows:
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Renee Scherer
[email protected]
[email protected]
(224) 717-1894
University of Michigan