Some examples: jIHvaD ratlh pagh. "There is nothing left for me." (paq'batlh) qotarvaD lay'ta' 'ej batlh pab qeylIS jatlh 'e' mevDI' nuvpu' mejmoH ghaH ratlh be'nalDaj luqara' neH [Don't have the translation handy at this time] (paq'batlh) Also, the game Star Trek: Klingon contains the line {luq. ratlh.} when saying that a person is allowed to stay at a {lopno'}. This dialogue was most likely written by Okrand. To turn "Remain Klingon!" into an imperative, you could use {tlhIngan yImojHa'Qo'!}. ("Don't un-become Klingon!"). That being said, while I can see why you'd want an imperative, I quite like {tlhIngan maH; taHjaj!}; it fits in quite nicely with classic phrases such as {tlhIngan maH!} and {reH tlhIngan wo' taHjaj!} (toast). I also think it works nicely because it's often spoken in chorus; it's not T'Kuvma telling his followers to remain Klingon, but rather T'Kuvma and his followers committing in unison to remain Klingon. //loghaD ________________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 12:03 To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] [Spam] Remain klingon Before going into detail of the philosophy of this phrase and usage of {-jaj}, there is something else important to notice: {ratlh} means "remain, stay" in the sense of being at a place. You can tell a dog "stay". You can tell your kids to "stay at school". The verb in "Remain Klingon" means something like "continuously-be", which is something else. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/StarTrekDiscovery _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org