tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 27 12:53:03 2000
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RE: Corruptisima republica plurimae leges
- From: "De'vID" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Corruptisima republica plurimae leges
- Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:54:08 -0500
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> De'vID asks:
> : "Corruptisima republica plurimae leges."
> : It means "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
> : (From Tacitus, Annals III 27.)
Voragh:
> I like this version. Now, to render that extra, superlative sense of
> *corruptissima* and *plurimae*, how about:
>
> law'qu' chut; qalchu' qum.
>
> It's succinct and - as the Latin apparently does - leaves the exact
> relationship up to the reader. I would also omit plural suffixes and all
> syntactic markers like {vaj} and {-chugh} to mimic the concise style of the
> original.
You're right, it does have the succinctness and ambiguity of the
original. majQa'.
I have a question though. Why is the word order seemingly reversed?
i.e. I would've expected {qalchu' qum; law'qu' chut} based on the
word order of the original.
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De'vID
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