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Boots, continued

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 5 14:33:40 1993

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From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 93 08:59:54 EST


> Now right is right, but you ain't been right yet.

> lugh lughwI', 'ach not bIlughpu' SoH.

> Note "lughwI'" for "thing that is right."

Or it could be read -- I *did* read it -- as "someone who is
right", and that works fine.  "not" is nice; "wej" would carry
the "not yet" meaning literally, but I think it would also imply
that maybe "you" will be right sometime... which would clash with
the feeling of the original.

(ja'chuqghach Hoch vIlaDmeH wej jIHvaD yap poH.

tlhab boloptaHbogh HochvaD: lopghach botIvjaj!)

- marqem

                          Mark A. Mandel 
    Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200 
            320 Nevada St. :  Newton, Mass. 02160, USA 

                    mI' jIHbe'; nuv tlhab'e' jIH!


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