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Re: unanalyzable words in tkd

Quvar ([email protected])

• From: Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: unanalyzable words in tkd
• Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:20:38 +0100
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Am 10.03.2004 06:27:43, schrieb "De'vID jonwI'" <[email protected]>:

>>qama', ngeHbej, toDuj
>These come from changed lines in ST:III and ST:V.

   {qama'pu' jonta' neH}
was originally the sentence for:
   "I told you, only the machine"

later, it somehow got confused or changed:
   "I wanted to capture prisoners"
   {qama'pu' vIjonta' vIneH}

{qama'pu'} first had the meaning of now {qaja'pu'}. 
Marc Okrand needed to "accomodate" these words, hence the verb {ma'} "accomodate" :-)

The other two words come from another sentence, which is accidently used twice in ST5, so MO again 
needed to recast the translation:

     {vaj toDDujDaj ngeHbej DIvI'}
      "Then the federation will certainly send their rescue ship"

---> {vaj toDuj Daj ngeHbej DI vI'}
      "Shooting of cosmos garbage doesn't proof a warriors' courage"
      (TKW: Shooting space garbage is no test of a warrior's mettle.)

I once said to MO "Ah, that's why there are two words for warrior..." 
He answered s.th. like, "No, actually not. vaj is not the same as SuvwI'."

Quvar.

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