tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 30 09:10:47 1997

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Re: Success



On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, William H. Martin wrote:

> According to Joel Peter Anderson:
> > 
> > 
> > Success is a hideous thing. 
> > Its false similarity to merit deceives men.
> > 					Victor Hugo
> > 
> > Qapla' moHqu'.  
> > batlh rurlaw' 'ej novpu' law' toj 'e'.
> 
> You were doing so well right up to the last word.

.... oops - maybe I was speaking with a Canadian accent, 'eh? 

> Except for the word order in the first sentence.

Hmmm - thinking adjectively I guess... I might defend it as translating
the first sentence into an exclamation "ugly success!" ['eh, but I
wasn't...]

> .. and the use
> of {nov} where I would have expected {nuv}...

typo.  bIlugh.

> I'll offer a couple different attempts of my own:
> 
> moHqu' Qapla'.
> nuvpu' law' tojmeH batlh rurlaw' Qapla'.
> 
> mIghlaH Qapla'.
> batlh rurlaw'mo', nuvpu' law' tojchu'.
> 
> You have found a very powerful quote and made an honorable
> attempt at translating it. Please accept that I meant no
> disrespect by taking on the mission of translating it.

jIyaj.

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