tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 17 09:18:54 1996
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Re: juHrob
- From: [email protected] (Bill Hedrick)
- Subject: Re: juHrob
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:18:43 -0600
>On the other hand, I don't know that your translation is very good.
>"Homesickness" as "juHrop" makes me think of some disease that is
>indigenous to your home, perhaps a kind of syndrome you get from staying
>home too long and not getting out in the fresh air, or a hereditary disease
>of your nuclear family. The meaning of "nostalgia" (literally "home-pain",
>I think) for "homesick" is of course an English idiom, and idioms are
>notorious for not translated cleanly. If I said "bayit-choleh" in Hebrew,
>Israelis would be mystified (confirmation, Doq?). The term is, I think
>"mitga`gea` labayit" or something like that (longing for home).
>
>~mark
As MO noted in TKW, idiomatic phrases have to be recast, A klingon may have
dirt under the fingernails (butlh) where a cocky terra'ngan would have gall
(burgh)
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