tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 13 18:12:18 1996
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re: Re: KLBC: HIboQqd
- From: Michael Nixon <[email protected]>
- Subject: re: Re: KLBC: HIboQqd
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:54:56 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: [email protected]
- Posted-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 18:10:25 -0800
I lost my access to the tlhingan-hol newsgroup, because the board where I
got it stopped carrying inet email... but I noticed this message, which I
attached to this message...
Who is the origanal poster of that message? I would be interested to
talk to him...
I agree with your definition of 'vanity', btw...
I missed all the newsletters after this, so I wouldn't know what else was
said about this subject...
Qapla'
-may'qel
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 23:01:25 -0500
From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: KLBC: HIboQqa'
Message-ID: <v01520d03ad3dcd5267b9@[205.139.170.201]>
ghItlh Soqra'tIS:
>Eccl. 12:8 Hechbe'lu'taH ! Hechbe'lu'taH ! ghojmoHwI' jatlhtaHqu'.
> Hoch'e' Hechbe'lu'taH
Without recourse to the "original", I read this as something like:
"It continuously is not intended! It continuously is not intended! He
really keeps speaking 'the teacher.' As for everything, it continuously
is not intended."
My _Scofield Reference Bible_ sheds only a little light on what this is
supposed to be: "Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all *is* vanity."
There's precious little context even in Ecclesiastes itself for the word
"vanity," but I assume it to mean "action or accomplishment without any
lasting significance" or something similar. I can't manage to figure out
how {Hechbe'lu'taH} might fit this concept.
The only useful comment I have regarding this attempt is that it seems
entirely too literal; literal translations are rarely good translations.
Go for the *meaning* behind the words; the words themselves are merely
symbols we use to represent the meaning.
>yIlugh
jIlugh reH 'e' vInID! <yIlughmoH> DaghItlh chaq 'e' DaHech'a'?
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj
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