tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 24 12:12:26 2004

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing

• Index by Date
• Index by Thread
• Index by Author

Re: another canon 'mistake'?

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: another canon 'mistake'?
• Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:11:38 EDT

In a message dated 2004-06-24 11:41:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> I 
> presume you're referring to the idea of "belonging in" being translated as 
> "your location is."
> 
> 
> SuStel
> 

Yes.  The Klingon seems to say that the person being cursed is already in the 
black hole and in the netherworld, whereas the English states that the proper 
place of the person being cursed is the netherworld and/or black hole, and 
that he's interfering with the natural order of things by being where he is.  
The Klingon is simply making a (presumably) untrue statement.  The English gets 
into wishes and other hypothetical stuff, with a lot of presupposition thrown 
into the bargain.  BTW, do we know anything about Klingon presuppositions in 
language use?  Or, to paraphrase Suzette Haden Elgin's trilogy, the Klingon 
version of "The non-gentle art of verbal attack" (mu'qaD veS, perhaps?)

lay'tel SIvten

• Prev by Date: RE: another canon 'mistake'?
• Next by Date: RE: another canon 'mistake'?
• Previous by thread: RE: another canon 'mistake'?
• Next by thread: RE: another canon 'mistake'?
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread
  • Author

Back to archive top level