[2781] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: A translation question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 25 19:07:45 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: laibow@brick.purchase.edu (Marnen Laibow-Koser )
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 17:57:23 EST
In-Reply-To: <199401041447.JAA16509@startide.ctr.columbia.edu>; from "Mark E. S
houlson" at Jan 4, 94 9:47 am
jatlh ~mark:
[...]
: >What you're really trying to convey is:
:
: >GOOD(KLINGON(X)).
:
: My own attempt was patterned after an Okrandian sentence with a clause as a
: subject, expressed elliptically. Okrand says in PK {De' lI' Sovlu'DI' chaq
: Do'Ha'} for "knowledge of useful information may be dangerous." This is a
: nice way to handle many such situations, I think. Doesn't completely work
: here, but with minor modifications...
:
: tlhIngan SoHchugh vaj maj
: tlhIngan jIH, vaj maj
:
: and so on. Note the nice thing about this is that I get to use "maj" and
: not "QaQ", since the former is an even more "approving" (zabna, for
: lojbanists) word.
Sure the PK approach works! How about >tlhingan ghahDi' vay' maj< or >tlhingan
jiHDi' maj<...or is this a job for >-mo'<?
:
: Many of charghwI''s attempts were really excellent, I thought, and help
: stress a point that can't be stressed enough: translating from English to
: Klingon is the wrong way to go about it. You have to reconceive the phrase
: in Klingon and start from scratch. Unfortunately, from what trI'Qal told
: me, the person who started this is somewhat on the pig-headed side and
: won't be satisfied with less than "saying just what I said, only in
: Klingon." *sigh*.
jiQochHa'.
:
:
: ~mark
:
:
Qapla' Qichqemwi'vo'.
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