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Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:13:50 EDT

In a message dated 4/16/2008 19:02:30 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:01 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  Is there another word after "lingua dei"?  That just means "language of 
> the".
> >   Something meaning "warriors".  "Guerrieri", perhaps?
> 
> Latin has several words you could translate as "warrior" - Guerrieri
> isn't one of them.  Unless you count modern Italian as very, very late
> Latin. :)
> 
> The most literal translation is probably "bellator" (-> lingua
> bellatoris).  No doubt that's what be'tor is short for. :)
> 
> There's also "duelis" (-> lingua duelis), where we get "duel"; that
> one has a nice ring to it.
> 
> In the sense of "professional soldier", the word was "miles" (->
> lingua militis), whence we get "military".  In Medieval Latin "miles"
> was used for "knight"...
> 


Here's a more complete version of the email text from Voragh:

In a message dated 4/16/2008 13:36:53 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> During my work at the University of Chicago Library, I've stumbled upon two 
> interesting illustrated dictionaries of artificial/imaginary languages 
> which, inter alia, discuss Klingon:
> 
> 
> Paolo Albani and Berlinghiero Buonarroti's _Aga magèra difùra: dizionario 
> delle lingue immaginarie_.  Bologna: Zanichelli, 1994.  ("Klingon, lingua 
> dei" pp. 213-214.)
> 
> Tim Conley and Stephen Cain's _Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic 
> Languages_.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006.  ("Klingonese" and the 
> other languages of Star Trek pp. 169-173; article includes a fairly 
> complete bibliography.)
> 


The title "Dizionario delle lingue immaginarie" is in Italian, so I used 
Italian words, not Latin.

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