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Re: Translation help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Jan 30 08:08:01 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: nsn@vis.mu.OZ.AU (Nick NICHOLAS)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 0:05:27 EDT
In-Reply-To: <9401281637.AA01010@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU>; from "Will Martin" a
t Jan 28, 94 11:37 am
batlh choja', Will Martin quv:
=> >batlh choja', Matthew Whiteacre quv:
= You are pretty close. Basically, this is an overly polite, redundantly
=saccarine statement. Consider that {quv} is used adjectivally and {batlh} is
=used adverbally. I then translate this as "Your honor, the honorable Matthew
=Whiteacre, tell me:" or "Honorable Matthew Whiteacre, you honorably tell me:"
Well. It's intriguing to see how much reaction my moniker has provoked!
All I intended was "You tell me with honour, Mr Whiteacre". I suppose my
understanding of Klingon culture is more verbose than charghwI''s --- in
fact, 'e' vISovchu' ;) . NAME quv is how I translate Mr blah, Ms blah, Sir,
Lieutenant, Constable (especially in the mouths of hicks); and batlh is
probably a very frequent adverb in Klingon culture. At least, it is in my
writing...
I do suppose I'm about due for a change of attribution quote, though the
fact that I use it in talking to *all* my correspondents (who tend to be
Terran) justifies it somewhat for me. Unfortunately, whatever I choose, it
will have to be longer than "nuqneH, petaQ" ;)
Then again... (hehehe...)
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