[Tlhingan-hol] anyone have a contact at conlang.org? or a MySpace account?

[Robyn Stewart]

I prefer the first. The second could be a description of one's preferred foreplay. I recommend including an explanation of why the English word order suggestion doesn't work. 

On 2013-04-29, at 11:43, "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:42 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I came across this analysis of the "Klingon" spoken in the movie "Garden State":
>> http://tsketar.conlang.org/conlangs/klingongardenstate.html
>> 
>> <Just to be absolutely positively sure, I also investigated what would
>> be the Klingon version of the phrase, as glossed by one of the other
>> characters -- "I like to mate after battle". I got:
>> 
>> may' tlha' vIngagh 'e' vIparHa'
>> 
>> literally 'I like it that I mate with him/her following battle.' If
>> you can find a better translation (or a person who could provide a
>> better translation), I'd welcome the pointer.>
>> 
>> I would like to contact the author to offer a suggestion, but there is
>> no contact info on the site.
> 
> An intrepid sleuth has given me the author's email contact info. Thank
> you, Ruben.
> 
> Now, what do people think I should suggest for "I like to mate after battle"?
> 
> There are several ways to render "after battle" ({jISuvpu'DI'},
> {rInDI' may'}, etc.)  I think "[I] mate [with unspecified person]" has
> to be {jIngagh} and "I like to [do something]" is {'e' vItIv}.
> 
> rInDI' may' jIngagh 'e' vItIv.
> jISuvpu'DI' jIngagh 'e' vItIv.
> 
> Does anyone have better suggestions?
> 
> --
> De'vID
> 
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