[Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay cha'vatlh loSmaH chorgh: quv tobmeH

[Robyn Stewart]

On 2012-08-01, at 8:34, Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:

> jIghItlhpu', jIjatlh:
> > I'm falling behind again... :/
> 
> jang Qov, jatlh:
> > chaq vIlI' 'e' vImev.
> 
> jIjang je, jIjatlh:
> > Qo'! At least, not on my account.
> 
> mujangqa' Qov, jatlh:
> > No, there's another reason, but I'll keep you supplied while you're still reading.
> 
> No worries - but again, don't go out of your way just on my account. I've got plenty of backlog to read, after all.

Hoch jaj vIlI' 'e' vIHwxh 'ej pIj jaj veb 'ay' vIlI'rupmo' not qay'. 

> jIH:
> > Will my own 'ay'Hom wejDIch slow you up a little?
> 
> Qov:
> > loQ. Depends on the weather and the phase of the moon--literally. I got called out to work today because of especially low tides.
> 
> Heh, not many jobs where that's the case. nuq Data'?

mIllogh qonbogh muD Duj 'orwI' jIH. jul wItlha'. DachDI' 'engmey mavum. bIQ'a' HeHmey wIqontaHvIS pIj potlh bIQ Dotlh. 

> > I'm so excited by the whole Georgia/epic thing that I already want to dress up like tIna'tIn and go horseback riding through the Caucuses. With a sabre.
> 
> mIllogh tIqon, pagh qaSbe'pu'. :P

qonqangchu' yabwIj. 

> > Is this poem a famous piece of literature in Georgia? Will normal people be somewhat familiar with it?
> 
> Very much. What Dante is to Italian or Shakespeare to English, Shota Rustaveli is to Georgian. Even more so, maybe - before the 20th century it was customary for a copy, often illuminated, to form part of new brides' trousseaux,

vIghajnIS!

> and the main avenue of Tbilisi and two Georgian universities are named after Rustaveli.

majQa'! nov bom noy vIlaD 'e' vItIv. 

> > I will have to learn enough Georgian to explain that I read it in the original Klingon. Or maybe not.
> 
> I'm not sure how they'd deal with that! :) They'd be glad you knew about it, though, through whatever means it happened to be.

vIlaDtaHmo' jIHem. 

-Qov
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