[89571] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: nuq bop bom: 'ay' cha'maH wa'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Sun Sep 11 00:38:21 2011
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:27:01 -0700
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <BAY166-W600BCB32DB164E06FA36E1AA030@phx.gbl>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
At 19:15 10/09/2011, you wrote:
>ghItlhpu' Qov, jatlh:
> > jang Mahoun. "yuQvamDaq malja' wIHuq wIneH. mIpbe'law' nganpu'vam.
> > Huch ghaj'a'?"
>
>*lu*ghaj'a', I think. Can Huch be plural?
Nooo, probably not. Hagh qoHpu' neH HeghtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'.
> > "maHvaD Huj DIrlIH qIj
>
>DIrlIj, though I realise this would've just been a typo.
Weird one, though. That my right hand hit the wrong key but my left
still shifted it. Or maybe I just saw an h and changed it without
seeing that it should be a j not an H.
> > SKI: Essim advises Mahoun on the local economy, then initiates a
> > Klingon ritual.
>
>"tay, qar'a'??", Sovchu'taHvIS ghaHvaD tlhob. ('ej DaH nenwI' vIDaqa'
>'e' vIlay'.)
I just love having the poor QeDpIn bored out of his tree at another
incomprehensible alien ritual, without the faintest idea what is
going on in front of him, while Mahoun is having this intense moment
of both personal transition and lust.
>In all seriousness, the descriptive prose in the section describing the
>Klingon ritual and Mahoun's reaction to it is pretty powerful, I think.
>majQa'.
choquvmoH. SoHmo' wa'leS 'ay' vIlab 'e' vIngIl. jIjatlhpu' jangchugh
pagh vIlabbe'.
- Qov
