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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Dol

Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh ([email protected]) 

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ghItlhpu' Qov, jatlh:<br>&gt; An entity is a thing or a being, and while there are contexts in which<br><div>&gt; the entirety of something is an entity, they are quite different words.<br><br>jang loghaD, jatlh:<br>&gt; I'd like to point out that Marc, as far as I know, hasn't quite said that<br>&gt; {Dol} means "whole"; he's simply used that word to translate {Dol} in<br>&gt; that particular instance. One could also read it as "We succeed together<br>&gt; as a greater entity.", but it doesn't sound quite as good (at least to my<br>&gt; ears).<br><br>Weirdly, an extremely literal translation communicates the meaning better for me:<br><br>wa' Dol nIvDaq matay'DI' maQap.<br>When we are together in one superior entity, we succeed.<br><br>I really don't see any reason to suspect Marc mis-applied "entity" here. The Merriam-Webster dictionary also gives as definition number 3 for "entity": "<span class="ssens">an organization (as a business or governmental unit) that has an identity separate from those of its members". That's *exactly* what is being communicated here. When people are together, and form an organised group, the group as a whole - the entity, the Gestalt, the Dol - succeeds where the members of that group may not do so individually.<br><br>QeS 'utlh<br></span></div> 		 	   		  </div></body>
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