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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/25/2016 1:52 PM, Christa
Hansberry wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:580f9bf3.c509240a.7d21c.60dd@mx.google.com"
type="cite">My friend who writes short stories has a character in
one of her stories who has the super-power (they all have
super-powers!) of being able to speak and understand any language
in the universe. So in demonstration of this ability he says a
line in German, and one in Welsh, followed by the declaration
"vay' Hol qej vay' Hol!" which baffled me ("anyone's language is
grouchy anyone's language"??), so I scrolled down to the footnote
to see what she meant, and it said "any language, means any
language." <br>
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So I tried to figure out what the correct way to say that would
be, but I can't figure it out, and I can't correct her Klingon if
I don't have a better solution myself. How would you translate
this sentence?
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<p>The <b>qej</b> obviously comes from <i>be grouchy, mean,</i>
even though that's the wrong kind of <i>mean.</i> Your friend got
this out of the Bing Translator (try it!).<br>
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<p><b>vay' Hol</b> means <i>someone's language;</i> I'm not sure
whether <b>vay'</b> can be used to mean <i>any <thing>.</i></p>
<p>Better to reword the idea completely. Any problem with <i>every
language?</i></p>
<p><b>Hoch Hol vIjatlhlaHbej 'ej vIyajlaHbej</b><br>
<i>I can definitely speak and understand every language</i></p>
<p>Another possibility, though I'm not sure whether it's
grammatically acceptable:</p>
<p><b>Hochna' Hol vIjatlhlaH 'ej vIyajlaH<br>
</b><i>I can speak and understand definitely-every language</i></p>
<p>Both of these sentences put forward the "yes, what I'm saying is
really true" idea of the original in a way different than English.<br>
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