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Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:19:16 -0500
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My mistake. I took "lingua dei" as Latin for "language of God",
rather than Italian for "language of".
On 4/16/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> lay'tel SIvten </HTML>
>
>
>
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