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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] jar wej *jarjep
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Thu Mar 26 18:45:13 2015
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 23:44:51 +0100
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
To: "tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
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Am 22.03.2015 um 22:41 schrieb De'vID:
> Last week, I posted my reconstruction of the "Ides of March" scenes
> from Julius Caesar, hoping someone would comment on it or suggest a
> better translation.
Sorry for not answering; I just thought that jarjep sound quite logic
and useful, but we know Klingon is not always so logic :-)
> Since no one did, I asked Marc Okrand what he thought of my *{jarjep}
> idea. Here is his reply:
Okrand:
> yulyuS qaySar was told to beware of the {maS'e' So'bogh pagh}, the
> full moon. He said he really doesn't know why this was changed in the
> English translation, but he guessed it may have something to do with
> how Earth calendars work or used to work.
De'vID:
> So, there was no "Ides" in the original Klingon, that's just an
> artifact of the Federation Standard translation. However, {maS'e'
> So'bogh pagh} is how Klingons talk about the "full moon".
One should know that in roman times, the socalled "Ides" were indeed
describing the full moon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar#Months
Just playing smartass again. ;-)
--
Lieven L. Litaer
former Beginners' Grammarian
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