[85056] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: I don't work here!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Thu Sep 11 20:18:08 2008
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:15:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <48c9a651.1ebc720a.374b.71f5@mx.google.com>
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tlhIngan Hol Dalo'chugh, vaj bIjatlhDI' qanwI' mIS law', bIjatlhpa' qanwI' mIS puS!
-- ter'eS
--- On Thu, 9/11/08, nahqun@gmail.com <nahqun@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: nahqun@gmail.com <nahqun@gmail.com>
> Subject: I don't work here!
> To: tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org
> Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 6:14 PM
> So I spend my nights delivering medications to nursing
> homes. And more often than I'd like, old people start
> asking me questions-questions that I don't have answers
> to. And per company policy, I'm not really supposed to
> do much interacting with the residents.
> It is common for people to say "I don't work
> here" when mistaken for an employee, but I'm not
> quite sure how to say it in Klingon.
>
> A simple dictionary lookup gives me 3 words for
> "work": baj, Qap, and vum.
>
> baj-earn, work for (actively)
>
> Qap-work, function, succeed, operate, be in operation
>
> vum-work, toil
>
> At first baj looks spot on:
> malja'vam vIbajbe' (I don't work for this
> business).
> But the full definition makes it clear that I'm to be
> working towards a goal.
>
> As for the other two, I do indeed function, toil, and work
> *at* these places.
>
> Am I missing an obvious workaround?
>
> ~naHQun
>
> --
> http://twitter.com/roneyii
