tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 20 20:06:26 1996
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Re: KLBC:Name that Song
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC:Name that Song
- Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 22:09:39 -0500
>>Okay, which is it? You seem to say that you agree with Ford that "Rage"
>>is a noun, but you then use it as a verb. Is the band's name supposed to
>>mean "complain angrily and violently about" the machine, or is it supposed
>>to mean "violent anger which is placed adjacent to" the machine?
beHwI"av writes:
>The former, "complain angrily and violently about", this is why I find it so
>detrimental that there is not a word for "against". Can you understand how
>important it is for the concept as a whole?
No, I can't understand how the lack of a single word can be so detrimental.
If you can't come up with another way to accurately express the idea, then
I suspect you do not clearly understand the underlying idea itself. Have
you seen the other proposed translations for this sentence? What do you
think of them?
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj