tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 02 15:33:55 2001
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RE: KLBC: Drummond Quote
- From: "Roger Robinson and Sian Jones \(naQSej\)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Drummond Quote
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 20:35:10 +0100
- Importance: Normal
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Either Ha'DIbaH is just general abuse, which defeats the parallelism (if you
can have triple parallelism) or it is misleading and conceals the point of
the quote - obviously animals reason less than Humans and Klingons, but that
is not the point Drummond is making. He is telling us something about
bigotry - that bigots don't think - he isn't just telling us that not
thinking is a bad thing.
Why not cherghHa'wI' - intolerant person?
qen mu'vam vIlo' - bep pagh.
Also I would use -Qo' in the first part - these are people who choose not to
think though they could if they wanted. And in the third part it is a rare
opportunity to say -vIp and live, isn't it. The "slaves" are not just not
willing to think, they are afraid to.
naQSej
-----Original Message-----
From: David [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 02 July 2001 16:37
To: klingon
Subject: KLBC: Drummond Quote
bImeqbe'chugh, Ha'DIbaH SoH. bImeqlaHbe'chugh, bIDugh.
bImeqqangbe'chugh, toy'wI''a' SoH.
--English--
If you do not reason, you are an animal. If you cannot reason,
you are a fool. If you are not willing to reason, you are a
slave.
The original quotation (which I am desperately trying NOT to
butcher) is from Sir William Drummond:
"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and
he who dares not is a slave."
1. I have chosen the word {Ha'DIbaH}, as I did not find "bigot"
in TKD. Any suggestions?
2. What is the proper way to handle a double consonant like "q"?
In the word {bImeqqangbe'chugh}, where the suffix {-qang} meets
the verb {meq}, I presume it's proper to keep them both,
correct?
Qapla'
David
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