United We Stand?

[dargos]

posted on 7-14-2002 at 06:08 AM

United We Stand

i came up with "QamjIj maH", but would like verification

[qurgh]

posted on 7-22-2002 at 02:21 AM

Hmm.

United we stand is an idiom, which means that we have to think about what you are really refering to. If you want to translate something like that you need to give some context for it. What are you standing united against?

I would translate it general as something like:
majIj - We cooperate

If we look at United Federation of Planets - yuQjIjDIvI' we see that jIj is used to get the united part. DIvI' being Federation and yuQ means planet.

As a side note, in your sentance has an unknown word in it QamjIj isn't a word. I'm guessing you stuck Qam and jIj together to make something, but you can't do that. They are two verbs, they aren't nouns. You sentance translate (although it's not really translateable) as We standcooperative (and you missed the verb prefix ma-). The verb Qam in Klingon just refers to the physical act of standing, as in standing in a line. The standing in "United we stand" refers to a group of people opposing something.
So you could say:
<thing> wIqaD

With <thing> being the object/situation that the group is standing against.

[dargos]

posted on 7-22-2002 at 04:55 PM

ok, so something like "jagh wIqaD" might be more appropriate? which would translate into we stand against our enemies. could jagh be stretched a bit to imply adversity as opposed to a specific enemy?

[qurgh]

posted on 7-23-2002 at 03:22 AM

You could use either jaghpu' enemies or jaghmey enemies scattered around the place.

Personally I would say jaghmey wIqaD, because then you are not talking about one enemy or even a group of them, you are talking about a bunches of them, all over the place. That to me generalise the groups of enemies.

[mrklingon]

posted on 7-23-2002 at 02:28 PM

jaghmey

"You could use either jaghpu' enemies or jaghmey enemies scattered around the place."

another nice thing about jahgmey is that it MIGHT be taken as insuluting, -mey also being the plural for non-sentients

FWIW, anyone online looking for a tlhIngan Hol dictionary can go to http://members.aol.com/jpklingon/uta/GALDict.html, or click on the dictionary link at http://www.mrklingon.org