[Tlhingan-hol] "Never give up; never surrender"

[lojmIt tI'wI' nuv]

Interesting. 

What would you think of {Qu''e' lI'be' De'}?

That sets the context of the usefulness of the information without banging heads over syntactic vs. semantic beneficiary status.

Just an idea.

And I agree with you about the joke. It is funny and we don't have to fix it, even if there are ways to do so.

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On May 28, 2012, at 1:26 PM, David Trimboli <david at trimboli.name> wrote:

> On 5/26/2012 10:01 PM, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>> 
>> --- On Sat, 5/26/12, David Trimboli<david at trimboli.name>  wrote:
>> 
>>> It's been a running gag that the line from Galaxy Quest, "Never
>>> give up; never surrender," comes out in Klingon as {not yIjegh;
>>> not yIjegh}. I was just considering this, and decided that a
>>> translation truer to the sentiment would be {not Qu'vaD yIjegh;
>>> not jaghvaD yIjegh}.
>> 
>> How about using {-'e'}? I think we've lost a powerful tool by not
>> understanding its full possibilities as a topic-marker, {not Qu''e'
>> jIjegh, not jagh'e' jIjegh} "As for tasks, never surrender, as for
>> enemies, never surrender.}
> 
> Ha! I'm usually ignored when I suggest using {-'e'} in this way.
> 
> Per TKD 6.7, I'd probably arrange this as {Qu''e' not yIjegh; jagh'e'
> not yIjegh}. {Qu''e'} and {jagh'e'} are "elements of another type"
> (because they're not the objects of {yIjegh}, and {not} should go
> between them and the verbs.
> 
>> Is there canon suggesting that {-vaD} is the correct suffix for
>> this? "Surrender for the benefit of the enemy" sounds OK, but
>> "surrender for the benefit of task(s)" doesn't equal "give up" to
>> me.
> 
> I think {-vaD} works here in the same way it works for {Qu'vaD lI'
> De'vam} "this information is useful for the mission." It's a
> *grammatical* beneficiary, not necessarily that the beneficiary has
> actually acquired something. You could just as easily say {Qu'vaD lI'Ha'
> De'vam} "this information is useless for the mission." The mission
> certainly hasn't acquired anything in this case. {-vaD} represents a
> *syntactic* beneficiary, not necessarily a semantic one.
> 
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