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RE: How Many of Them Can We Make Die!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Aug 6 16:48:14 2010

From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:43:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4c5c6821.9882e50a.330f.573a@mx.google.com>
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On first glance most of this seems easily do-able, though it may not be sing-able.

  (petaQ) 'ar wIHeghmoHlaH jay'? 
  (petaQ) 'ar wIHoHlaH jay'?

using everbody's all-purpose favorite epithet!

 
-- 
Voragh                          
Canon Master of the Klingons



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Roney, Jr.
>Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 2:53 PM
>Subject: How Many of Them Can We Make Die!
>
>Earlier today I received a request to translate the following poem/song.
>As poetry comes with its own unique problems, I'm sending this out to
>the group for input.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>Axes flash, broadsword swing,
>Shining armour's piercing ring
>Horses run with polished shield,
>Fight Those Bastards till They Yield
>Midnight mare and blood red roan,
>Fight to Keep this Land Your Own
>Sound the horn and call the cry,
>How Many of Them Can We Make Die!
>
>Follow orders as you're told,
>Make Their Yellow Blood Run Cold
>Fight until you die or drop,
>A Force Like Ours is Hard to Stop
>Close your mind to stress and pain,
>Fight till You're No Longer Sane
>Let not one damn cur pass by,
>How Many of Them Can We Make Die!
>
>Guard your women and children well,
>Send These Bastards Back to Hell
>We'll teach them the ways of war,
>They Won't Come Here Any More
>Use your shield and use your head,
>Fight till Every One is Dead
>Raise the flag up to the sky,
>How Many of Them Can We Make Die!
>
>Dawn has broke, the time has come,
>Move Your Feet to a Marching Drum
>We'll win the war and pay the toll,
>We'll Fight as One in Heart and Soul
>Midnight mare and blood red roan,
>Fight to Keep this Land Your Own
>Sound the horn and call the cry,
>How Many of Them Can We Make Die!
>
>




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