<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Yes, the dangers of plug-n-play “translation”. The same words pulled from the lexicon and shoved into a grammatically correct parallel construction in the style of Google Translate won’t always communicate the intended idea.</div><br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 28, 2023, at 4:29 AM, De'vID via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 3:04 PM André Müller via tlhIngan-Hol <<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org">tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">On a side note, note that there's a prefix missing in the title. "Boys like you" should be {SoH nIrurbogh loDpu'}.</div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>It should be {SoH nIrurbog loDHompu'}, qar'a'? Although I'm not sure that "boys" in this context means the same thing as {loDHom}. In English, infantilisation is sometimes used as a form of affection, but Klingon culture would probably view it as insulting. (There's a story here about an unfortunate Terran who tried to flirt with a Klingon by calling her "baby", i.e., {ghu}.)<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>
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