[tlhIngan Hol] Five Little Bunnies by Dan Yaccarino (Children's Book)

mayqel qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 00:28:50 PDT 2016


qurgh:
> This is from the start of Power Klingon. The Terran is saying "May we speak!",
> and then he got shot at by the Klingon for speaking that way. It's not a phrase that
> should be emulated as it's not something a Klingon would say

hahaha ! I didn't know that, thanks !

SuStel:
> The lengwIjvaD is associated with the verb Danobpu'bogh. Which you
> have given for my journey.

ok !

'arHa':
> Who eats Easter eggs, first of all?

?!?!?! vISop 'ej Sop latlh Hut'uy' HutbIp Hutnetlh Hutvatlh HutmaH Hut
'elaDya'ngan je !
?!?!?! I eat them, and an additional 9.999.999 greeks !

naDev, reH easter QImmey Doq wISop !
here we always eat the red easter eggs !

wa'DIch DIpub, ghIq DIDoqchoHmoH, ghIq latlh QIm ngeQ wa' QIm 'e' wIqaSmoH..
first we boil them, then we paint them red, then we hit one egg with the other..

'ej tagha' wISop !
and finally we eat them !

mIv mop je Hurgh qunnoq

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 9:28 AM, John R. Harness <cartweel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 'oy', Under 9 I obviously forgot to delete an old version of a sentence. I
> mean to go with {pem Hoch QImmey yIrtaH puqpu' 'ej reHtaH.}
>
>
> --
>
> Socialist Alternative
> Klingon Language Institute
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 1:11 AM, John R. Harness <cartweel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your input everyone. Below a few comments I've pasted a new
>> version incorporating most of your advice. I don't think I missed anything!
>>
>> re: yIr instead of Sop:
>> This is weird in the book. Who eats Easter eggs, first of all? Even so,
>> the image on the page shows a child eating either a live yellow bird or
>> (more likely) candy like a "Peep" (which is bird-shaped), not one of the
>> eggs. Thus I chose yIr because I thought it fit better, and one of the
>> reasons I want to use books like these is because of the visual cues they
>> give -- but this particular cue is misleading. Call it "An Interpretation of
>> Five Little Bunnies by Dan Yaccarino."
>>
>> And,
>>
>> re: ghunchu'wI':
>> "Are {ngIq QIm nguv} and {Hoch QIm nuv} singular? The prefix {lu-} would
>> be called for if so."
>> I can't quite tell if the object is singular or plural in these instances.
>> (It is like a conversation SuStel and I were having on Facebook re: Hoch and
>> how it works in a noun-noun phrase.) What do you all think I should go with?
>>
>> Far Away:
>> I added {HopchoH} at the very end. I kind of like it. How otherwise could
>> I get across the idea of them exiting the scene?
>>
>>
>> 1. Five little bunnies went hippity hop.
>>
>> qettaH vagh Qa'Hom. mI'. Sup.
>>
>> 2. The first bunny said, "We're here! Let's stop!
>>
>> {mapawta’! mamevjaj!} jatlh Qa'Hom wa'DIch.
>>
>> 3. Let's hide Easter eggs. We all know how. We need to hurry. Let's start
>> right now!"
>>
>> {QImmey nguv wISo'jaj. mIw wISovchu’ maH! wImoDnIS. DaH maruchjaj!}
>>
>> 4. The second bunny said, "We can hide a lot. I'll hide some in this
>> flower pot."
>>
>> {QIm law' DISo'laH. chorvamDaq 'op vISo' jIH.} jatlh Qa'Hom cha'DIch.
>>
>> 5. The third bunny said, "The kids will find striped ones, spotted
>> ones--every kind."
>>
>> {wov 'op 'ej Hurgh 'op. Segh law' SamlaH puqpu'.} jatlh Qa'Hom wejDIch.
>>
>> 6. The fourth bunny said, "Now the fun can start."
>>
>> {DaH taghlaH lop.} jatlh Qa'Hom loSDIch.
>>
>> 7. The fifth bunny said, "I love this part!"
>>
>> {Qujvam vImaSqu'!} jatlh Qa'Hom vaghDIch.
>>
>> 8. The kids found the Easter eggs one by one. The little bunnies said,
>> "Our job is done!"
>>
>> ngIq QIm nguv luSamta’ puqpu'. {pItlh! rIn Qu'maj,} jatlh Hoch Qa'Hom.
>>
>> 9. The kids ate the eggs and played all day.
>>
>> QImmey yIr puqpu'. pem Hoch reHqu'.
>>
>> pem Hoch QImmey yIrtaH puqpu’ ‘ej reHtaH.
>>
>> 10. Then the five little bunnies hippity hopped away!
>>
>> ghIq qetqa' vagh Qa'Hom. mI'qa'! Supqa'! HopchoH!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Socialist Alternative
>> Klingon Language Institute
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Michael Roney, Jr. <nahqun at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> lutvam vIlaD.
>>> lut Qoy puqloDwI'.
>>> tIvqu'!
>>>
>>> mIllogh chenmoH neH.
>>> paq chenmoH neH je.
>>>
>>>
>>> ~naHQun
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ~Michael Roney, Jr.
>>> Freelance Translator
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