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<p class="MsoNormal">{jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe'} has long confused people. I’ve seen it translated inter alia as:<br>
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“<i><span style="font-family:Courier">I don't know the area around here that I'm at</span></i><span style="font-family:Courier">." [qoror]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> "<i>I'm unfamiliar with my surroundings</i>."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">My own explanation is that Okrand was trying to render something like “I don’t know where I am”. Perhaps because of the confusion he came up with another variant
in Power Klingon:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier"> DaqwIj vISovbe'</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier"> DaqwIj Sovbe'</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier"> (Clipped)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> I am lost. PK<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">literally,
</span><span style="font-family:Courier">"I don’t know my location." Note the similar line from ST6:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Courier"> Daq Sovbejbe'taH qIrq</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier"> Kirk cannot know the location... ST6<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> tlhIngan-Hol [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ed Bailey<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 29, 2016 12:40 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">{jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe'} is a very interesting canon sentence! Normally I'd say {naDev jIHtaH} for "I am here." (though it sounds like the sort of self-evident statement that deserves the response {quSDaq bIba'})<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So what explains the word order?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">~mIp'av<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <<a href="mailto:felixm@kth.se" target="_blank">felixm@kth.se</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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TKD includes the phrase {jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovb<b><span style="color:#44546A">e’</span></b>.} for "I'm lost."<o:p></o:p></p>
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