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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] The Dhammapada: A Klingon Translation, verses 1-2

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) 

Voragh:
>> Instead of trying for a hyper-correct, overly-long translation
>> of *Buddha*, you could go another way and just use his name:
>> *{ghotam}, *{gho'tam}, *{ghawtam}, etc.
 
Michael Everson:
> That's a personal name; Buddha is a title.

wa' DoS wIqIp.  My point exactly.  

Simply use his name for the book's title - e.g. {ghawtam ghobmey paq} "Gautama's Book of Virtues/Ethics" - and leave the detailed etymological discussion of *buddha*, *dhammapada*, etc. for the introduction or first footnote.


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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