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De'vID:
>> {Edo} veng leng

Qov:
> Is {leng} for sure one of those verbs that doesn't need a -Daq?  (I'm asking, not hinting).

It's in HQ 7:4.  Without {-Daq} and with a prefix indicating third
person object it means "travel to".
http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-12-holqed-07-4.txt

De'vID:
>> Hub'eghDI' ra'wI' HoH.

Qov:
> Hub'eghDI' Z., rawI' HoH Z. pagh Hub'eghDI' rawI', Z. HoH ra'wI'?

mu'tlhegh wa'DIch.  vItI'.

De'vID:
>> tagha' be' mej

Qov:
> nuv mejlaH'a' vay'?  I think "leaving someone" with the same verb as leaving a place might be an English idiom. {lon} vImaS.

ghaytan bIlugh.  {lon} vIlaj.

De'vID:
>> 'ej Daq Hop leng. {Buzen} yoSDaq lalDan lengtaHwI' moj.

Qov:
> lalDan lengtaHwI' 'oSbogh DIvI' Hol mu' vISovbe' 'ach qech vIyajchu'. "Adherent" DatI'meH qechvam Dalo'nIS.

lu'.

Qov:
> Dajqu'!  letlh mutlhlaH 'ach qech tIn ghajnIS Z.

ra'wI' HoHpu'.  rIQmoH neH 'e' chavbe'.

De'vID:
>> ra'wI''e' HoHpu'bogh
>> {Zenkai} ghaH vavDaj'e'. bortaS DIbmo' {Zenkai} HoHmeH Sam.

Qov:
> latlh be'nal ghaj'a' rawI'? pagh yatlh'a' be'nal Haw'DI' be'nal Z je? pagh puqDaj lon'a' be'nal Haw'DI'? pagh puq be' je lon'a' Z?

jISovbe'.  puqloD ghaj Heghpu'wI' 'e' vISov neH.

Qov:
> Inigo Montoya 'oH pongDaj'e'?

ghaytanHa'. :-)

De'vID:
> [3] - Klingons have no tear ducts, and all that...

Qov:
> Do', tlhIngan ghaHbe'.  bertlhamvetlh vIpIH 'ach lut vItIv.

Does {SaQ} mean to scream or to shed tears?

>>  In self-defence, he slew the
>> official. Then he ran away with the wife.

Qov:
> I'd leave the possessive off be'nal here. One tends to assume that it refers to the subject of the sentence, which is why I thought Z had been slain.

lu'.

>> Knowing of a dangerous road over a cliff that had caused
>> death and injury to many persons, he resolved to cut a tunnel through
>> the mountain there.

Qov:
> That is just as bizarre in English.  One wonders, is the tunnel still there?

HIja'.  loQ noymo' luleghmeH lughoS SuchwI'pu':
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/oita/yabakei_aonodomon.html

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