tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 19 09:39:16 1996
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Re: This Stone Thread
>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:14:22 -0800
>From: "Lord Havelock Sinister" <[email protected]>
>When a mason has finished his work on a stone, particularly one
>intended for construction (i.e. to become part of a wall), the stone
>is referred to as "dressed." It is a "dressed" stone.
Yes, exactly so. Which is why I say that basing the Klingon term on words
for "finished" makes as much sense as making it a "tuQbogh nagh". It's
translating words and not concepts.
>Now, what was that Klingon phrase for "spanner in the works ..."
Whatever it is, it shouldn't have anything to do with Klingon words for
"span" or "work". :)
~mark