[85723] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Spanish joke
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Jun 11 09:37:25 2009
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:34:40 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6941EA70EBA74505A15A83F27087CE2A@juH.Seruqtuq.net>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Voragh wrote:
>> -Camarero, he encontrado un pelo en la sopa y no es mío.
>> -Démelo, lo guardaremos por si vienen a reclamarlo.
>>
>> -Waiter, I've found a hair in my soup and it's not mine.
>> -Give it to me. We'll keep it in case someone comes to claim it.
>>
>> -jabwI', chatlhDaq jIb vItu'pu' 'ej jIbwIj 'oHbe'.
>> -jIb HInob; wIpol. poQmeH chaq jaHchugh vay'.
DloraH:
>My problem is that you have both chaq and -chugh.
>HInob. wIpol, chaq chegh vay' 'ej poQ.
Ah, good point; I failed to fully edit my previous version. I think just dropping {-chugh} will do it:
(jIb) HInob; wIpol. chaq poQmeH jaH vay'.
HInob. (jIb) wIpol; chaq poQmeH jaH vay'.
I was trying to stay close to the original, but {chegh} "return" works too.
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
