tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 20 19:15:57 1999
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Re: Shakespeare
- From: SuSvaj <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Shakespeare
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:33:20 -0500
At 06:52 PM 8/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>jatlh Mark:
>>There is also Nick Nicholas' translation of _paghmo' tIn mIS_ (Much Ado
>>About Nothing); I believe the text of it is available on the KLI's ftp
>>site.
I just visited the KLI merchandise page, and I didn't see it there.
SuSvaj
But I don't know if Nick has updated it since it was put up there;
>>it's actually even older than the Hamlet translation. He may or may not
>>have a more recent version. He's also translated a few of Shakespeare's
>>sonnets, which are also online somewhere; same disclaimer regarding their
>>age applies (this is important, because we've learned new things about the
>>grammar and vocabulary in the interim).
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>Nick's <paghmo' tIn mIS> on the KLI's ftp site is very old (unless someone
>sneaky-changed it within the last year or so), and doesn't much resemble the
>updated version. I worked with Nick as the editor of Much Ado, and I was
>royally, er, annoyed that I couldn't be at the qep'a' to meet him.
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>I still entertain hopes that Much Ado will be published someday. It was
>once the KLI's plan to publish one Shakespearean play a year. Obviously,
>that hasn't occurred, but I still hope that more than one can be done. Of
>course, I don't expect to see Much Ado or any other play published in
>paperback like Hamlet may be.
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>Interestingly, we worked on Much Ado BEFORE the publication of KLINGON FOR
>THE GALACTIC TRAVELER. I'd LOVE to go through the play again and update it
>some more, but my schedule just doesn't give me the time. And if I did
>that, I'd rather do it in cooperation with Nick, as I feel he's got a better
>feel for Shakespeare than I do (and it is his translation!).
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>'oH lInglu'jaj!
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