<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 November 2017 at 16:51, Felix Malmenbeck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:felixm@kth.se" target="_blank">felixm@kth.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">{Qobchugh chaH, vaj 'oH vIjemlaHbe'.}<br>
"If their intentions were nefarious, I would be the first to sense a threat."<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I understood this differently until I read the English translation.</div><div><br></div><div>The Klingon says "If they are dangerous (conditioned on their being dangerous), I cannot (would not be able to) detect it." That is, they have the ability to hide their nefariousness from me. They might be very dangerous!</div><div><br></div><div>The English really means something like: "Conditioned on their being dangerous, I would be able to detect it, but I don't." That is, they can't hide their nefariousness from me, but I don't sense it. Thus they are not dangerous.</div><div><br></div><div>It's the opposite of what's apparently intended.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
{tugh DunchoHbej jemmeH laHmeylIj.}<br>
"Even your limited sensory abilities will improve eventually."<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Is this supposed to be {tagha'} instead of {tugh}? We also have {SIbI'Ha'} from Klingon Monopoly. But {tugh} seems to be the opposite of what the English says.</div><div><br></div><div>It also seems like it would be a good place for {vabDot}, if we knew how to use it. :-)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
{nov yIn, nov nugh je wanI'mey but SIgh Duj beq net tuch.}<br>
"No starship may interfere with the normal development of any alien life or civilization."<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This seems like a good place to use {joq} instead of {je}. I presume that interfering with any alien life "and/or" civilisation is forbidden, not just that interfering with any alien life "and" civilisation (i.e., both at the same time) is forbidden.</div><div><br></div><div>I like that {Duj beq} was used for "starship", avoiding the metonym which exists in English but not necessarily in Klingon. </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">De'vID</div>
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