[Tlhingan-hol] Prospero año nuevo

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I had the same thought about "chepjaj DIS chu' "; that people can prosper (and companies and other such entities), but a period of time can't, really. It's just a time period, in which perhaps someone's prosperity occurs. So that's why I took the time stamp approach, even though for all I know it could work like English and Spanish, and not so much in keeping with my Lojbanic inclinations. 

Also, I went with the plural "you", even though that is not implied in the Spanish; is bI- necessarily singular, or can it include multiple "you"s?


-QISta' 

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QISta'
>> DIS chu' Suchepjaj!

SuStel
> chepjaj DIS chu'
> may the new year be prosperous

Do we have canon showing that in Klingon something occurring to an individual during a time period can be expressed as something happening to that time period? I tend to avoid that construction to be safe.
 
> qaStaHvIS DIS chu' bIchepjaj
> may you be prosperous in the new year

SuStel, SoHvaD moHaqmey 'agh taghwI'.  maHvaD jatlh, vaj lugh wIvDaj.

Suchepjaj expresses the wish for us all, and if we are going to accept <DIS chu'> as a valid description of a year that has just begun, then what could be the problem with it as a timestamp?

DIS chu' Suchepjaj, indeed.

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