tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jul 05 16:43:58 2003
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Re: Tao Te Ching Chp. 63
ja' 'ISqu':
>bIvangbe'taHvIS yIvang.
>bIvumbe'taHvIS yIvum.
>Act without taking action.
>Work without doing work.
The Klingon text loses the subtle distinction between two concepts which
appears in the English, and turns it into a simple contradiction. Consider
instead:
bIchavbe'taHvIS yIvang.
bIta'be'taHvIS yIvum.
The next line has an apparent contradiction in English but qualitatively
different verbs in Klingon, which makes me think that the first two Klingon
lines ought not to be so strongly contradictory.
-- ghunchu'wI'