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RE: KLBC: latlh vImug

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: RE: KLBC: latlh vImug
• Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 20:00:59 -0800 (PST)
• Cc: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
• In-reply-to: <v01520d00aed12c01ef7b@[205.139.170.201]>

I'm not comfortable listening to your psychotic banter. Leave me the hell 
alone.

On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Alan Anderson wrote:

> ja' HurghwI':
> >chab ngevbogh loD qIH "Simon" nap.
> >"Simple Simon met a pieman."
> 
> I'm not comfortable with {nap} for this meaning of "simple" -- I tend
> to think of it as meaning "uncomplicated", not "unlearned" or "lowly".
> It loses the alliteration as well; a less direct translation would be
> somewhat more in keeping with the flavor of the original.  I also think
> the word {Suy} would be useful here:
> 
> {chab Suy qIH "Simon" Soy'}.
> 
> -- ghunchu'wI'
> 
> 
> 

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