tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 14 18:07:19 1996
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Re: KLBC: vInIDqa' (Re: KLBC: HIboQqa')
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: vInIDqa' (Re: KLBC: HIboQqa')
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:14:41 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Garrett Michael Hayes" at Feb 12, 96 11:46:15 am
I really think this is getting off topic. Unless you are using
Klingon or talking about it, you really don't need a dozen
messages to say:
preacher = teacher
no it doesn't
yes it does
no it doesn't
yes it does
no it doesn't
it does because this book says so...
It is instead starting to seem like an effort to get the word
"Christian" posted to this list as many times as possible
without any real reason.
charghwI'
According to Garrett Michael Hayes:
>
> On 9 Feb 96 at 17:54, Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:
>
> > ghItlh janSIy:
> >
> > > We keep complaining when learners try to translate word for word, and
> > > now we complain when a translation doesn't match the original exactly.
> > > The modern American Christian understanding of a preacher is a teacher.
> >
> > Well, not being a Christian (though I like to think of myself as a modern
> > American!) I cannot speak either for or against this statement. However, as a
> > non-Christian I can say there is *nothing* in the conotative meaning of
> > "preacher" that signals "teacher" in my mind, far from it. Go figure.
>
> Some of this confusion may actually reflect equivocation or at least
> variation on what we mean by "teacher". For a really good discussion
> of some of the differences between a "preacher" and a "teacher", I
> would recommend reading "Conversations With Rabbi Small" by Harry
> Kemmelman (Yes, the same author who wrote "Friday the Rabbi Slept
> Late" and the rest of the Rabbi Small Mysteries. CWRS is only
> marginally fiction however, and not one of the mysteries at all. )
>
>
>
> Garrett Michael Hayes; Client/Server Labs
> 8601 Dunwoody Place, Suite 332, Atlanta, GA 30350
> [email protected], http://www.cslinc.com
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>
>
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