tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 23 20:11:20 1997
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Re: translation from Star Wars
>Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 17:57:32 -0800 (PST)
>From: "eric d. zay" <[email protected]>
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>> qoror here. Earlier today I saw Return of the Jedi, and noticed a very
>> fluent and accurate translation of "jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe'."
>Literally, that
>> means "I don't know the area around here that I'm at." In the movie,
>though, at
>> one point Leia said: "Well, it looks like I'm stuck here. Trouble is, -I
>don't
>> know where here is.-" What do you think? More accurate than "I'm lost,"
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>> less clunky than the literal translation.
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>The quickest and easiest way to say, "I'm lost" that I can think of is:
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> DaqwIj vISovbe. "I don't know my location."
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Which indeed Okrand has used, I think trying to replace "naDev jIHtaHbogh
vISovbe'" which he probably realized was really twisted.
~mark