[Tlhingan-hol] how would you write this in klingon?

[Steven Boozer]

I received this off-list Friday.  Can any of the pIqaD masters here help Katie on writing this in pIqaD?

Thanks,

--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 5:52 PM
> To: Steven Boozer
> Subject: how would you write this in klingon?
> 
> Thankyou for your insight into how to say "live long and prosper" in
> Klingon, but does anyone have any idea on how to WRITE it in Klingon? i
> have tried to have a superficial look but not atall sure i am on the
> right path!
> I appreciate that it may be hard to do on querty keyboard, but do we
> just break down your translation of klingon into the appropiate symbols
> in Klingon?
>
> Thankyou so much for your help on this :)
> Katie
> 
> --- In Klingon_Language at yahoogroups.com, Steven Boozer <sboozer at ...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ronald Finkelstein <finkron at ...> wrote:
> > > > "Live Long and Prosper" - how do you say this, in Klingon?
> >
> > Col. Krikor zantai-jechwI' (Krikor Ajemian) wrote:
> > >I would translate it as:
> > >
> > >    bIyInjaj nI' 'ej bIchepjaj
> > >    (may you live long, and may you prosper).
> >
> > This is literally "may you live, it/he/she is long, and may you
> > prosper":  there's no connection between the verb {nI'} "be
> long/lengthy
> > (duration)" and the verb {yIn} "live".  In Klingon {nI'} is a verb,
> not an
> > adverb as is the English "long" in "may you live long".  One way to
> fix
> > this is to use the noun {yIn} "life":
> >
> >    nI'jaj yInlIj ...
> >    may your life be long/lengthy ...
> >
> > Yesterday I gave two translations by Okrand:
> >
> >    yItaH 'ej yIcheptaH  (UPN's ST 25th Anniv. Special)
> >
> >    yIn nI' yISIQ 'ej yIchep ("Radio Times" ST 30th Anniv. book)
> >
> > Note that he used the noun phrase {yIn nI'} "(a) long life" in the
> second
> > of these.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Voragh
> > Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> >
>