tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 12 11:08:58 1997
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Re: KLBC: (Requiem) wej'DIch 'ay'
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: (Requiem) wej'DIch 'ay'
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:08:14 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message from Qov on Tue,9 Sep 1997 09:09:03 -0700 (PDT))
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>Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:09:03 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Qov <[email protected]>
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>At 09:58 PM 9/8/97 -0700, Edy wrote:
>>Hoch chavmeymaj ngaSchu'bogh paqna' tu'lu'. poSchoHDI' 'oH vaj tagh yojwIh
>>(There is a (definite) Book which contains (perfectly) all our achievments.
>>When the book is opened our judgement will begin)
>>ba'pu'DI' noHwI' paqna' laDchoHlu'chu'. bIjDaj popDaj joq Hev Hoch
>>(As soon as the judge had seated, they will read (in all details) the Book.
>>Everyone will have their reward or their punishment.)
One comment I didn't see made relates to the use of -na' here. When you
say "paqna'", you're not really saying "a *particular* book", it means "a
book, nothing more or less, definitely a book and not something else." I
don't really see what you're gaining by saying that our deeds are recordeed
in a BOOK dammit (it's not something that LOOKS like a book, it's not a
spirit of a book, it's definitely a book and not something else.) and that
they will read the thing that really definitely no-doubt-about-it is a
book. Or is that what you meant? Do other Klingonists read this the same?
~mark
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