[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing "god damn"

[Alan Anderson]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:40 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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..


jay'

It's not any more complicated than that.


You seem to have picked up a habit of using {'Igh} as a literal term. Don't
do that. If you have KGT handy, read what it says on page 167:

This is a slang term with no known origin. It can be applied to just about
> anything--persons, missions, ships, and so on--when everything seems to be
> going wrong... In standard Klingon, the same idea may be expressed by
> saying {Do'Ha'moHlu'} ("be made unlucky" or "someone/something causes
> [someone/something] to be unlucky"), as in {DaDo'Ha'moHlu'} ("You've been
> made unlucky, or someone/something causes you to be unlucky").


-- ghunchu'wI'
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