[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing "god damn"

[mayqel qunenoS]

I'm afraid you misunderstood me..

I didn't mean to say "your mother cooked this damn good food"; I meant
"your mother cooked this god damn food".

qunnoH jan puqloD
ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'

On 9 Dec 2016 3:47 pm, "Felix Malmenbeck" <felixm at kth.se> wrote:

I'm rather sleep-deprived, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow
before participating in the large debate which I'm sure this will elicit,
but:

I wouldn't use {jay'} when making a compliment. {jay'} is invective, not
just emphatic. You're basically saying "Your mother bakes jinxed food, and
this fills me with contempt."

When we say something is damn good, we're using a vulgar expression, but
we're not using it invectively.


I doubt the average Klingon would find the damnation of gods particularly
important (they're all dead, anyway), so it probably wouldn't be a part of
idiomatic speech (although you never know).


However, if you wish to explain the Terran phrase, you might want to
construct a relative clause using joH'a'/Qun, and pum/qIch/QeHmoH.


//loghaD



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So, I've been wondering for quite some time now, how to express the DIvI'
Hol "god damn". How to convey its essence in klingon..

Of course the question is: what does "god damn" exactly mean ? does it mean
that "god damns whatever", or the one who speaks "damns/curses god" ?

Anyway, the way I *feel* this wonderful DIvI' Hol expression, if I wanted
to say:

"your mother cooked this god damn food"

I would express it like this in tlhIngan Hol:

{Sojvam 'Igh vutta' SoSlI' jay'}

the only problem is that the element of "god" is missing from this
sentence; but I believe this is indirectly being conveyed by the {'Igh}.
when something is cursed, either god has done the "cursing", or a human
through "god".

so, I think that by the proper combination of {'Igh} and {jay'}, we can
express in klingon this wonderful english expression.

'ej DaH, rIn QInvam 'Igh jay' ! hahaha

qunnoH jan puqloD
ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'

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