tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 30 07:03:42 1996
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bang
- From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
- Subject: bang
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:13:17
uu> From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <ur-valhalla!cs.columbia.edu!shoulson>
uu> Subject: bang
>From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
>We now have canon for using {bang} without the {-wI'}: page 159 of TKW
>gives {reH bang larghpu'}, with {bang} translated as "love" or "one who
>is loved".
uu> It's {larghlu'} actually.
reH Suvrup SuvwI''a'! (How many {qa'meH vIttlheghmey} can a man recite over
one message? <g>)
uu> This isn't really significant on its own, since we've seen "bang" by
uu> itself already (like, when it's defined). I think you're thinking that
uu> {bang} was given as a verb and now we're seeing it as a noun. In fact,
uu> {bang} was always defined as a noun, meaning "one who is loved."
For some reason, I had it in my head that {bangwI'} was in TKD.
uu> I marked that page, though, because it DOES tell us something I
uu> thought was meaningful. In the book, you can *hear* Okrand talking to
uu> us. He definitely had us in mind when writing it. You can hear it in
I saw this in *several* spots. For instance, page 151: someone here on the
list proposed {nuHwIj DawIvta'; DaH yISuv!} "You've chosen your weapon; now
fight!" Okrand's version is only slightly different. Coincidence?
uu> his painstaking explanations whenever a grammar mistake is made (well,
uu> most of the timea), or when the Englishg translations differs even
uu> *slightly* from the literal Klingon. He knew we (and people like us)
uu> would be going over every word with a fine-toothed comb, trying to
uu> tease out new words, new constructions, and new shades of meaning.
We've certainly let him know we will. How many items did this book remove
from the wish list?
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