tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 02 13:30:38 1996
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RE: How to say "monastary".
- From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: How to say "monastary".
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:32:35 -0500
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On Monday, December 02, 1996 4:17 PM, David
Barron[SMTP:[email protected]] wrote:
> > > Monastery: SovHal? (Knowledge source?)
> >
> > Out of context, this wouldn't mean much to me or anyone else. What is
a
> > monestary? How does it fit into the context of what you're saying?
> > "Knowledge-source" could mean anything. It could refer to a library
computer,
> > a well used for divination, or even a fortune cookie!
>
> ONe could use <chIrgh> "Temple (structure)" for monastary depending on
the
> context.
Or, one could appeal to Shakespeare. :) In Hamlet, the line "Get thee to
a nunnery" was translated as /ngaghQo'wI' nawlogh yImuv/. Footnotes
translate it as "squadron of the celibate," and further expound: "the
closest Klingon equivalent of a monastic order, these were bands of
warriors --- of either gender -- who dedicated their lives to fighting, to
the point of refusing to mate."
> david
--Holtej
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