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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] qo''e' tu'bogh pagh - 'ay' wejmaH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Fri Mar 9 12:28:33 2012
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From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 12:27:56 -0500
To: Klingon language email discussion forum <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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>>> MARTIA: Somebody up there wants you out of the way.
> Qov:
>> What does the "up" refer to in the English?
>
> From: De'vID jonpIn [mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com]
> Actually, I'm not entirely sure.=A0 She's either referring to someone up =
in
> space, or up in the hierarchy of the prison, but she's quite vague about =
it.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Or even higher in the Klingon government. It was General Chang et al. who
> orchestrated Gorkon=92s assassination and framed Kirk.
I read "somebody up there" as idiomatic for "someone in power". I'd
translate the line
{SunISlaHbe' neHba' ngupHey}.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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