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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 15 09:35:50 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 09:30:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: Captain Krankor's message of Sat, 13 Nov 93 11:08:30 -0700 <931113
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>From: Captain Krankor <krankor@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com>
>Date: Sat, 13 Nov 93 11:08:30 -0700
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>jIQochtaH. Like I said, if I had been told the joke originally in English,
>*with* the "scrape off", I still doubt I would've gotten it until it was
>explained. Though I agree about "quoth".
maQochqu'be'chuq. [I could probably have left off the -chuq, but I want to
make it clear that I mean "with each other"]. There was also the problem
of simply not catching the cultural reference, and the translation only
exaggerated it.
> --Krankor
~mark