<div dir="ltr">Thank you all for your help.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Steven Boozer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">Consider breaking up the long English sentence into two shorter Klingon sentences. Here’s some vocabulary and examples to play with:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Courier">lo'Ha'</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier"> waste (v)<i>
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<b>HoS lI' Dalo'Ha'chu'</b> <br>
You are a total waste of good energy! PK</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Courier">lo'laHbe'</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier"> be worthless (v)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Courier"><br>
vIlo'laHbe'</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier"> <br>
They are useless to me. I cannot use them. TKD<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>leghlaHchu'be'chugh mIn lo'laHbe' taj jej</b> <br>
A sharp knife is nothing without a sharp eye. TKW<br>
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<b><span style="font-family:Courier"> lo'laHbe'</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">;<b> chetvI' chIm rur</b>
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worthless as an empty torpedo tube KGT</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Courier">lo'laHbe'ghach</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier"> worthlessness (n)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Courier">lI' </span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">be useful (v)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Courier"> Qu'vaD lI' net tu'bej</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">
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One certainly finds it useful for the mission. <br>
One will certainly observe that it is useful<br>
to the mission. TKD<br>
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<b><span style="font-family:Courier"> Qu'vaD lI' De'vam</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">
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This information is useful for the mission. TKD<br>
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<span style="font-family:Courier"> <b>HoS lI' Dalo'Ha'chu' <br>
</b>You are a total waste of good energy! PK<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>lI' 'e' Datu'</b> <br>
You will find it useful. PK<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>lI'qu' tlhIngan may' taj <br>
</b>The Klingon battle knife is designed primarily for<br>
versatility of use. SP2<br>
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<b><span style="color:#c00000">bIDaqchu' 'ej jagh De' lI' DaSuq</span> <br>
</b>Intercept useful enemy information. MKE<b><span style="font-family:Courier"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Courier">lI'be'</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier"> be useless<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Courier"> wa'maH yIHmey lI'be' <br>
</span></b><span style="font-family:Courier">ten useless tribbles<b> </b>CK<br>
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Voragh<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 5/18/2017 6:28 AM, Rebecca Krause wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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jIQochbe'. paghmeH tlhIngan Hol vIghojtaH vIneHbe'.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">If you see errors I would be happy to be corrected; I'm a learner... thank you What I was trying to say with each sentence was:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"I agree. I don't want to be learning Klingon for nothing."<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><b>-meH</b> is a verb suffix; you can't put it on nouns. The English idiom <i>
for nothing</i> isn't something you can translate quite so easily; you have to turn it into a non-idiomatic idea first. I'm thinking
<b>lI'be' tlhIngan Hol ghojtaHghachwIj vIneHbe'</b><i> I don't want my ongoing learning of Klingon to be useless.</i><u></u><u></u></p>
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