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"movie" (was Re: MOST terminology)

Alan Anderson ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

jIja'pu':
> potlhmo' lut, yap'a' <HaSta lut>?

ja' SuStel:
>QI'yaH!!  jISovbe'!  reH 'e' vImaq!  chIch 'e' vI'ang!  ma - Sov - be'!!

jImIS.  jIghelta'.  bIjang vIneH.  qatlh bIQutnIS?  qatlh *ma_Sovbe' 'e'
Daqapchu'?  qatlh maHvaD bImaqrup, bISovbe'mo' SoH?

jInIDqa'.  "Movie" DelmeH yapbe'chugh <HaSta lut>, chay' yapbe'?  nuq nop?
latlh qech potlh Hutlh'a'?

>bISovchu''a' SoH'e'?  yIjang jay'!  maghojmeH maHvaD SovlIj nIv yI'ang.

nIvbe' SovwIj net Sov.  tera'ngan jIH.  tera'ngan SoH.  English
wIjatlhtaHvIS "movie" wIyajba'.  qech DaQIjlaw'ta':  "moving pictures which
tell a story" bIjatlhpu'.  vaj qatlh Qapbe' <HaSta lut>?  tlhoy poD'a'?
qech 'Iq 'oSlaH'a'?  <lut HaSta> DamaS'a'?  Seng yIngu'.  ghIq vItI'.

>latlh: mIghbe' Sovbe'ghach.

bISovbe'be'.  bISovQo'qu'.  meqlIj vIyajbe'.

Is it perhaps that you're just missing the point?  This isn't a discussion
about what Klingons call a movie.  It's a discussion about how *we*
translate into Klingon what *we* call a movie.  It is a tangent to the
larger discussion about how *we* can translate the menus and other text of
a computer program that *we* created.

I agree that we don't know how a hypothetical Klingon, in a typical Klingon
context, would say "Let's go see a movie."  But that's not important --
what's important is how *we* can say it, because we're talking about a
movie in a Terran context.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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