tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 05 10:33:38 1998
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Quixote visions
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Quixote visions
- Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 12:32:45 -0500 (CDT)
Today while cataloging James Erwin Schevill's _Quixote visions_ (Providence,
RI: Zuggurat Press, 1991) - a collection of verses inspired by Don Quixote
de la Mancha - one poem caught my eye and I attempted to translate it. I
make no claim to be a poet, but I present it here to challenge someone to
better render the whimsy and irrealis of the second line.
XII.
A chamberpot for a helmet.
If only warriors
had a sense of humor.
mIv ghajbe'; mIv bargh tuQ.
Doghbe'mo' SuvwI'pu'
Do'Ha'.
Though Klingons don't have chamberpots (so far as we know), they do have the
{mIv bargh}, which is a regionalism for a "metal flat-bottomed pot"
according to KGT. Le mot juste!
Voragh
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Steven Boozer University of Chicago Library [email protected]