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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/24/2018 8:31 PM, Daniel Dadap
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<pre wrap="" class="">Would {nIqHomvam Daghajbe'chugh Qo'noSDaq yIjolQo’!} be a grammatically and lexically sound way to express this? I feel moderately confident about the lexical part, but not the grammatical part. {Qo’noS yIjolQo'}? {Qo’noSDaq yIjol’eghQo’}? {Qo’noS Dajolbe’nISlu’}? {Qo’noSoymeyna’majDaq yIjol’eghqangQo’choHmoHbejta'neSjaj}? {‘IHqu’ yIHmeyvelth}?</pre>
</blockquote><p class="">I'd probably use <b class="">Qol</b> <i class="">beam away</i> instead of <b class="">jol</b>
<i class="">beam (aboard).</i></p><p class="">We know that <b class="">HIjol</b> <i class="">beam me up!</i> is used by
Klingons, so it seems the person or thing that gets beamed can be
the object of <b class="">jol.</b> I can only assume the same is true of <b class="">Qol.</b>
The destination, therefore, would be given by a non-object
locative noun.</p><p class="">If <b class="">jol</b> and <b class="">Qol</b> can't flip subject and object like
some words can (e.g., <b class="">meQ</b>), then we probably have to
assume that the person beaming <i class="">must</i> be the object.
Therefore, <b class="">Qol'egh</b> or something like it is required. <b class="">yIjolQo'</b>
and <b class="">yIQolQo'</b> <i class="">sound</i> like they're right, but I'm not
sure they are. We haven't seen these verbs used enough to be sure.<br class="">
</p><p class=""><b class="">nIqHomvam Daghajbe'chugh Qo'noSDaq yIQol'eghQo'!<br class="">
nIqHomvam Daghajbe'chugh Qo'noSDaq DaQollu' 'e' yIchaw'Qo'!<br class="">
</b></p><p class="">Also consider using <b class="">Hutlh</b> instead of <b class="">ghajbe’.</b><br class=""></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks! {niqHomvam DaHutlhchugh Qo’noSDaq yIQol’eghQo’!} sounds good to me. (I’m writing a description for the App Store for the iOS boQwI’ port, and wanted to put something cute in Klingon in the blurb.)</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class="">
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