tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 07 08:36:43 2000
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RE: KLBC/ tokonoma
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC/ tokonoma
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 09:38:38 -0700
jatlh taj'IH:
> Greetings to the Empire!
> We are preparing a tea ceremony for our next feast, mostly in
> Japanese style, with green tea to boot.
> Since we have a fairly large tent, I can set up a tokonoma = a
> Japanese niche containing a scroll with a statement or poetry
> appropriate to the season.
> The season in 6 weeks will still be quite coolish, which leads
> me to the statement:
> "Courage faces the cold" (We usually freeze at our open air
> events, this is Germany ;-)
> My effort at Hol is as follows:
> muD bIr ghob toDuj
> (Courage does battle on cold weather).
maj.
> Any suggestions?
I very much like yours. I'll suggest a few more for variety, but you'll
probably want to keep the one you came up with.
muD bIr SIQ toDuj - Courage bears the cold
muD bIr SIQvIpbe' toDuj - Courage is not afraid to bear the cold
muD bIr SIQqang toDuj - Courage is willing to bear the cold
> I will prepare a scroll written in pIqaD. BTW, running the
> pIqaD letters of a word together makes a decorative effect
> and saves space.
maj. If they remain distinct enough to stay readable, I bet it would make
for a very nice effect.
pagh
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