tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 16 02:11:04 1997
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Re: Quotable quotes
- From: Ivan A Derzhanski <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Quotable quotes
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:10:06 -0800
- Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science
- References: <[email protected]>
David Trimboli wrote:
> January 14, 1997 10:43 PM, jatlh George Morton:
> > Even one hair has a shadow.
> > Etiam capillus unus habet umbram.[...]
> {QIb ghajtaH je wa' jIb}, "One hair also has a shadow,"
> although this may not mean what you want it to in some situations.
Do we know that {jIb} can refer to a single strand of hair as well
as an entire chevelure? And why the aspect suffix on {ghaj}?
> > Fools laugh at the Klingon and Latin languages!
> > Rident stolidi verba <Klingon> et Latina!
> > tlhingan je <Latin> Holmey Hagh qoHpu'[...]
> But you don't "laugh the language." This is ungrammatical.
{tlhIngan Hol _Latin_ Hol je vaq qoHpu'.}
> > The appearances of things are deceptive.
> > Fallaces sunt rerum species.[...]
> Here's an idea for a complete reworking of this idea.
>
> rut toj Dochmey Hur.
> Sometimes the outside of things deceive.
How about {pIj Dolmey chaHbe' Da Dochmey} `Things often appear to be
what they aren't'?
> > Honor is not everything; it is the only thing.
> > Gloria omnia non est; res sola est.
> > Hoch oH'be' quv'e' ; neH Doch 'oH quv
>
> {neH} always comes *after* the word it modifies.
Also it means `only, merely, just', not `the only/unique'. Not nearly
the same thing, except that they happen to share a word in English.
> [...] Hoch 'oHbe' quv'e'; Doch neH 'oH.
`Honour is not all; it is merely a thing.' That won't do, SuStel.
--'Iwvan
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"mIw'e' lo'lu'ta'bogh batlh tlhIHvaD vIlIH [...]
poH vIghajchugh neH jIH, yab boghajchugh neH tlhIH"
(Lewis Carroll, "_Snark_ wamlu'")
Ivan A Derzhanski <[email protected], [email protected]>
Dept for Math Lx, Inst for Maths & CompSci, Bulg Acad of Sciences
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