[Tlhingan-hol] whatculture's "10 Things You Must Know When Dating A Trekker"

[David Holt]

I can't get Mr. Klingon to do it, but this must have been some sort of machine look up.
The word "will" only appears in the definition of <lu', luq>.If you mistyped "you" as "your" one of the options you would get is <ra'>.
My guess is that somehow they got:Will = lu', luqyou(r) = ra'marry = nayme = jIH
Remove the apostrophes and "fix" the capitalization and punctuation and you get the sentence presented.

> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:06:28 +0100
> To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> 
> From: http://whatculture.com/humour/star-trek-10-things-you-must-know-when-dating-a-trekker.php/
> <So bear that in mind if either of you decide to utter those magic
> words “Lu, luq ra nay Jih’*
> 
> * ‘Will you marry me?’ in Klingon.>
> 
> Okay, I sort of get how *{nay Jih'} (= *{nay jIH}) is "marry me", but
> I can't for the life of me figure out where the rest comes from.
> 
> Maybe someone can contact the author and correct him
> (https://twitter.com/JohndeGruyther). I have no patience for doing
> that kind of thing.
> 
> --
> De'vID

 		 	   		  
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