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RE: Subtle shadings of "then": Okrand's error ?

DloraH ([email protected])

• From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: Subtle shadings of "then": Okrand's error ?
• Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 11:09:15 -0500
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> > Daj mugh 'oHbe'. mughDaj 'oH tlhIngan Hol mu'tlhegh'e'. bom mu'mey mugh 'e' 
> > nID, 'ach bom mu'vetlh qonpu' latlh nuv (Ray Charles'e' qonta').
>
> He tries to translate the words of a song, but the human (Ray 
> Charles) recorded that additional word to the song.
> 
> The second sentence seems to refer to a Klingon language 
> "rope" which I think refers to this translation "thread"... 
> an inventive use of the term...

mu'tlhegh - "sentence", listed in TKD.
"The klingon sentence is..."  and /mughDaj/ looks like he mistook /mugh/ to be a noun.


bom mu' - "lyrics", KGT p71.

/latlh/ is next to /nuv/, not /mu'/.
"... but another person composed those lyrics."

The part is the () is either:
  "(He had composed Ray Charles)", or
  "(As for Ray Charles, he had composed it)"
Because the focus of the discussion was about the lyrics and not really on Ray, I would have expected /qonta' Ray Charles/ "Ray
Charles had composed it"

 
> That's about all I can get until I learn what mughDaj vs Daj 
> mugh means...

He will have to explain what he meant by /Daj mugh/.



DloraH

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