[Tlhingan-hol] "Be excellent to each other"

De'vID jonpIn de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 13:34:16 PDT 2012


De'vID:
>> How would you translate this phrase from Bill & Ted?

SuStel:
> HochvaD peQaQ'eghmoH

I read this as "Make yourselves good for the benefit of everyone".  A
good sentiment, but not equivalent to the one requested.

I can see "be excellent" as {peQaQ'eghmoH}, but I don't get the sense
of "to each other" from {HochvaD}.  I think "to each other" would
normally be best expressed with {-chuq}, but there doesn't seem to be
an "action verb" here to hang this on to.

-- 
De'vID



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