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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Stonewall Poster Goes Klingon ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nIqolay q)
Sat May 4 02:58:01 2013
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmONLS4LhLg_EXx6n1au6L9PdeTASbWoEAKY-_YrVRV7eg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 02:57:44 -0400
From: nIqolay q <niqolay0@gmail.com>
To: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
Cc: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:07 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
> It was a spur of the moment thing thrown together on Twitter. The
> difficulty of expressing "gay" ("be homosexual") engaged most of my
> attention, and I didn't provide the best translation for "Get over
> it!" As others have already pointed out, {'e' yIlaj!} "Accept it!"
> gets the point across much better and in a more Klingon way than
> {yIqImHa'!} "Disregard it!" Brent's interpretation of it as being like
> "Mind your own business" was what I had in mind.
>
> As for {-Qo'} vs. {-Ha'}: they're not quite the same thing. {-Qo'} is
> the imperative counterpart of {-be'}, so {yIqImQo'} would mean "Don't
> pay attention to it". {yIqImHa'} is "Disregard it", using the gloss of
> {qImHa'} as "disregard". Although, now that I think about it, I can't
> think of a canon example of an imperative with {-Ha'}, so maybe that
> was a mistake too. (Voragh, do we have any such examples?)
I can think of one: jol SeHlaw lItHa'! from the PK section on animal commands.
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