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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Objects with -moH

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Tue Jun 3 16:08:09 2014

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 22:07:47 +0200
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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> Felix:
>>> I've never seen it written down, but in the opening of the song from <qul
>>> tuq> in the Star Trek: Klingon game, I'm fairly certain they sing <'o meQ
>>> qul! 'o meQ chal!>

Voragh:
> Mike Neff's useful transcription of KCD has something different:
>
>   [Qua'lon]
>   It is a score to {qul tuq}.  {qul tuq}.  Can it be you have never
>   heard the opera that tells the tale of our family's house?
>     [-- singing --]
>   uuaaooo ma-kool aaaooo ma-sar reshuv tak yak bo ej gogh bow ghotpu'.

It sounds to me like:
{'o meQ qul! 'o meQ chal! reH SuvtaH yoHbogh 'ej ghoHbogh ghotpu'!}

Possibly the first {-bogh} verb is {jaq}, but I think it's {yoH}. The
second {-bogh} verb might be {HoH}, depending on how the actor thinks
{j} and {y} are pronounced in Klingon.

You can listen yourself here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3vF9LXZePE&t=9m51s

-- 
De'vID

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