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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Today is a good day to be that guy"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Fri Sep 13 10:02:30 2013
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:02:01 +0200
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
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Again, a situation where you need to think about what "to be" really
means here.
My first simple thought would be the verb {rur} "resemble", in the sense
of "be like":
loDvetlh rurmeH QaQ jajvam.
After I have read Wheaton's blog, it looks like "THAT guy" is not just
{loDvetlh}... Perhaps a topic marker would work here:
loDvetlh'e' rurmeH QaQ jajvam.
With weathon's post, I think rur is not the best word, perhapbs Da is
even better: "I want to behave like that guy"
loDvetlh'e' vIDameH QaQ jajvam.
But it feels not hitting the idea perfectly... Maybe it doesn't work
without context.
Okay, these phrases are all based on the proverb "today is..."
Without that, I would recast completely:
QIpwI' vIDaQo'.
Lieven.
Am 08.09.2013 09:30, schrieb De'vID:
> https://wilwheaton.net/2013/09/tattoos-are-cool-but-klingon-tattoos-are-the-coolest/
>
> How would you render "Today is a good day to be That Guy"?
>
> On the model of "Today is a good day to die, it would be {loDvetlh X-meH
> QaQ jajvam}, but there is no verb X meaning "to be".
>
> Also, can anyone think of a way to get across the idea of "That Guy"
> better than just {loDvetlh}?
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Lieven L. Litaer
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