[Tlhingan-hol] "So what's Klingon for 'Now get your kit off?'"

[Fiat Knox]

"Kit" is a British colloquial term for "clothing" which specifically refers to a lightweight sporting uniform such as soccer or rugby wear.

So it could be phrased as

DaH SutlIj yItuQHa'moH "Now remove your clothing."

(tuQHa'moH undress (v) (TKD))

I say this a lot. Precision is important. Thank Kahless for those possessive suffixes. Such endless variety of choice as to whose clothes to order them to remove ...

Also, you could try:-

DaH yItuQHa''eghmoH "Now undress yourself."

That line is as likely to work as the line above. Of course, either line is far more likely to get you killed, but bISuDrup'be'chugh pagh Dabaj 'e' Daqotlhbej.

Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "So what's Klingon for 'Now get your kit off?'"
 

>On 5/28/2013 2:44 PM, Ruben Molina wrote:
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:19 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [The linked article is about STID, but there are no spoilers as the
>>> relevant scene is in the trailer.]
>
>>> <yItuQHa'choH!>
>
>> I can't parse it correctly
>> "You change to unwear" ?
>
>Try not to be so strict in your parsing. {-choH} means there is a change 
>of state in something, not necessarily that you're changing something. 
>It may mean that you're starting or stopping something.
>
>tuQ = wear
>tuQHa' = undress (undo-wear)
>tuQHa'choH = undress, resulting in a change of state (from not 
>undressing to undressing)
>yItuQHa'choH = undress! (command), resulting in a change of state
>
>That is, "Begin undressing!" Exactly *who* is being undressed is not 
>specified.
>
>> But I don't really undertand the English meaning of
>> 'Now get your kit off'  either
>
>> I am thinking on:
>
>> <yItuQHa''eghmoH!>
>> "undress yourself"
>
>{tuQ} has always been controversial, due to the odd translations we get 
>in TKD. I happen to agree with your suggestion. "Get your kit off" means 
>"get undressed"; I don't see a {-choH} in that.
>
>"We should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our 
>representation of a barely clothed actress."
>
>That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. "Oops! Still being a 
>little gratuitous. Let's try a little harder to show her in her 
>underwear for a GOOD REASON."
>
>
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