tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 28 07:08:45 1999
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Re: dreaming...
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Joel Peter Anderson wrote:
>
> Odd dream.
>
> I was reading the (excellent) book "The Sparrow", which is about the first
> contact with another intelligent race, led by Jesuits. There is huge
> amount of linguistics within the story, which (I think) led to my dream:
>
> I dreamed that I was talking to our music/evangelism minister at church
> about a bumper sticker that he had which had a Hebrew word on it. It said
> something about being a servant of God, but it seems like we were talking
> about whether it should be "b'nai" (children) of God instead of what it
> had "'avwI'".
>
> Only after I woke up did I realize that in the dream the word we were
> saying was 'servant', "'avwI'", was the Klingon word for "one who guards".
> The HEBREW word is "abad" or "avad", as in OBADiah (servant of the LORD).
> (see also the related Arabic word Abdullah, servant of Allah).
>
> ....
>
>
Very, very strange...but also encouraging; dreams containing elements of a
foreign language are evidence of mastery o'er said language. (It's
happened to me with Japanese.)
BTW, "The Sparrow" ghItlhpu' 'Iv?
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