[Tlhingan-hol] Prospero año nuevo

[Karen Alessio]

would Klingons perhaps say somehing like "May the next year be full of
honor for you!"
i actually am pretty bad at this, and would love if someone could help me
translate that!
On Dec 22, 2015 2:17 PM, "Will Martin" <lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com> wrote:

> majQa’. There’s nothing really wrong with what you’ve said, assuming that
> people can deal with {DIS chu’} as a time stamp.
>
> The original Spanish is a lot like the English “Happy New Year”. It’s not
> a complete sentence, but hey, we know what it means, right? There’s a
> cultural element in our understanding of the sentence fragment. Do Klingons
> have that cultural element? We don’t know.
>
> So, it’s safer to try to say the whole meaning, which is what you’ve tried
> to do with success.
>
> Other suggestions:
>
> You might consider the word {nem}, which means “year(s) from now”. We say
> “New year” when what we really mean is “the whole span of the year going
> into the future from here”. So, we could get very literal and say
> {qaStaHvIS wa’ nem Suchepjaj.}
>
> Or you could dig deeper and suggest:
>
> SuchepmeH ‘eb Dunobjaj nemvam.
>
> “May this next year give you opportunities to be prosperous!”
>
> In other words, prosperity shouldn’t just passively happen to you. You
> should have to get up and DO something for it. You should respond to
> opportunity. In fact, you should already be hunting for it. All you need is
> opportunity. You’ll take care of the rest.
>
> That’s a shade of what I suspect Klingon culture might offer differently
> than human culture.
>
> pItlh
> lojmIt tI'wI'nuv
>
>
>
> On Dec 22, 2015, at 1:49 PM, chransberry at gmail.com wrote:
>
> The subject line is in Spanish because "prospero año nuevo" is a more
> common expression in Spanish than "prosperous new year" is in English. But
> anyway, trying to translate this into Klingon, here's my valiant effort:
>
> DIS chu' Suchepjaj!
>
> Corrections appreciated!
>
> -QISta'
>
> Enviado desde mi teléfono inalámbrico Verizon
>
>
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