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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] whatculture's "10 Things You Must Know When
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Thu Feb 28 13:54:17 2013
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:50:16 -0800
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <SNT123-W590F073BACFA1B506C6E67A4FE0@phx.gbl>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Nice detective work. I'm going with HInayneS/HISawneS on my twitter feed.
At 07:03 '?????' 2/28/2013, David Holt wrote:
>I can't get Mr. Klingon to do it, but this must have been some sort
>of machine look up.
>
>The word "will" only appears in the definition of <lu', luq>.
>If you mistyped "you" as "your" one of the options you would get is <ra'>.
>
>My guess is that somehow they got:
>Will = lu', luq
>you(r) = ra'
>marry = nay
>me = jIH
>
>Remove the apostrophes and "fix" the capitalization and punctuation
>and you get the sentence presented.
>
> > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:06:28 +0100
> > To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> >
> > From:
> http://whatculture.com/humour/star-trek-10-things-you-must-know-when-dating-a-trekker.php/
> > <So bear that in mind if either of you decide to utter those magic
> > words "Lu, luq ra nay Jih'*
> >
> > * 'Will you marry me?' in Klingon.>
> >
> > Okay, I sort of get how *{nay Jih'} (= *{nay jIH}) is "marry me", but
> > I can't for the life of me figure out where the rest comes from.
> >
> > Maybe someone can contact the author and correct him
> > (https://twitter.com/JohndeGruyther). I have no patience for doing
> > that kind of thing.
> >
> > --
> > De'vID
>
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