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Re: Giving directions

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected])

• From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Giving directions
• Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:40:24 -0800 (PST)
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--- On Wed, 1/20/10, qurgh lungqIj <[email protected]> wrote:

> How do you give directions in
> Klingon? Do we have an canon for it?

No canon that I know of, but I generally like this.

> An example would be:
> 
> nuqDaq 'oH mebpa'mey'e'? - Where is the hotel?
> ????????? - Go straight and turn left.
> 
> The only thing I could come up with was:
> 
> tlhopDaq yIghoS 'ej poSDaq yItlhe'
> 
> Any other ideas?

Is it possible that a direction is considered a direct object?  If so, then we could use {-Daq} to be even more specific:

tlhop yIghoS 'ej qachDaq poS yItlhe'

> 
> qurgh
> 

-- ter'eS

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