tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 22 05:16:15 1995
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Re: "deliverance" again...
On Tue, 21 Nov 1995 [email protected] wrote:
> Ideas for "deliverance", the name of my Trek ship:
The problem with using things like /paw/ or /HIj/ is that they are too
closely attached to the English word "deliverance." What is it that
"deliverance" means? I'm no repository of religious knowledge, but my
impression is that it suggests being "delivered" from some non-religious
state to a religious one (getting to know God), or perhaps the transport
of your soul to the promised land.
So my advice is, first think about what it is you are *really* trying to
say. Then try to say it with tlhIngan Hol.
For instance, do we know anything about Klingon mysticism, in terms of
where warriors go when they die in battle? More to the point, is there a
*ship* which takes them there, like Charon's boat taking the dead across
the Styx?
> Qapla'
> Lt Barrows
--Holtej