On 11/20/2022 12:22 AM, zrajm via
tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
So, what do you think? Is «je jIH» better than
«jIH je»? And what are you arguments for your belief? – Or
should the phrase be avoided altogether and expressed some
other way? How?
{jIH je} strikes me as an Anglicism: an attempt to import a common English expression into Klingon by direct translation.
It might happen to work in some situations, like:
Person 1: tlhIngan jIH.
Person 2: [tlhIngan] jIH je.
I would see a response like the above as an elision of the word {tlhIngan} based on context.
However, I don't think it works in a situation like this:
Person 1: jIDoy'.
Person 2: jIH je.*
{je jIH} strikes me as just wrong.
In my opinion, the Klingon equivalent to me too is to
repeat the verb in the first person and add a je. For
example:
Klingon 1: romuluSnganpu' vImuS! I hate Romulans!
Klingon 2: vImuS je! Me too!
Klingon 1: SIbI' ruchbe'chugh chaH, jImej. If they
don't get on with it right now, I'm leaving.
Klingon 2: jImej je! Me too!
That's also my perception. This is partly informed by the joke from Power Klingon:
'avwI'vaD jatlh qama'; jIghung.
jang 'avwI'; jIghung je.
jatlh qama'; jI'oj.
jang 'avwI'; jI'oj je.
jatlh qama'; jIDoy'qu'.
jatlh 'avwI'; jIDoy'be'.