[100159] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Tue Jan 20 15:23:38 2015
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:23:24 -0500
From: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <CAFgJOr3R+GHouYpXO-3_8ghiz=UukKORtTHy1KjUzUOV0g2neA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/20/2015 3:15 PM, Brent Kesler wrote:
> I was pondering something similar a few months back. I wanted to
> translate, "These words are difficult to translate." I tried:
>
> 1. ?mughlu'meH Qatlh mu'meyvam.
>
>
> But I thought that might mean something like "These words are being
> difficult /so that /someone translates them", or "These words are
> being difficult in order to be translated", which is obviously not
> what I was going for.
>
> I found some examples that suggest my original translation,
> {?mughlu'meH Qalth mu'meyvam} would be acceptable.
Another one is from Star Trek V: {qIpmeH Qatlh'a'?} "Difficult to hit?"
This is another instance where sloppy translation by Okrand has become
widely cited by the community. Your analysis is correct; literally this
means "is it being difficult so that someone hits?"
Qatlh mu'vam mughmeH Qu'.
these words' translation job is difficult
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SuStel
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