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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' loSmaH chorgh: (tagh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Sun Oct 9 20:32:10 2011

In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20111008215404.0a904f08@flyingstart.ca>
From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 20:31:30 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca> wrote:
> jatlh =93chabHomqoqvam 'eyHa' law'
> tlhIngan 'Iw 'eyHa' puS.=94 tlhoS voQ QumpIn.

jItlhuHqu' jIH, pe'vIl jIHaghtaHvIS. muQoy 'ej mughel be'nalwI'. <tlhaQqu' =
nuq?>
nom jIQub ghIq vIjangmeH vIja' <tIq lut.> yonmoHlaw'. Qu'Daj buSqa'.

> roD nuvpIn gheS chIjwI'. vumwI' chu' Suq 'ej
> ghoHchuqchoHchugh ghot, 'oD ghaH.

Daj.

> =93Hat weQmey'e'!=94 jatlh HungpIn.
> jatlh jonpIn =93jav Dop ghajchugh neH.=94 Hagh Hoch.
> =93chutmey vIja' neH. vI'oghbe'.=94 jatlh chutpIn.

vaj chutpIn vIpIchbe'. chutvam jum Da'oghbogh SoH qapIch. :-)

> [39] charghwI'! THIS is a valid reason for words like the EuroTalk "good
> morning" to be in the lexicon, for translating the wittering remarks of
> other languages.

Even if it isn't exactly a phrase Klingons would use if they were
visiting present day Earth, it's still one they would have to
recognize. With that realization, it's obvious that the sorts of words
that appear on language primers used by Terrans are exactly the ones
that should appear on Terran language primers targeted at Klingons.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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