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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Wed Feb 1 07:32:55 2017
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 13:33:14 +0100
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On 1 February 2017 at 00:19, Brian Cote
<wearetheinformation00@gmail.com> wrote:
>> While reconsidering this sentence:
>> {'ej not bIQ'a' qoDDaq lengchu'be}
>> /and he had never actually traveled around it/
>> I realized that the English translation is a little dubious.
>> The German uses "durchfahren" which means to "travel
>> through" in the sense of to "travel through (a tunnel)"
>> or "pass (beneath a bridge."
ja' De'vID:
> Consider {vegh} to translate the German "durchfahren".
No, not really.
First, "fahren" is not only what a car does, but also what a boat does.
Next, the verb {vegh} is defined as going through something like a
"hole" or a "gate", something that has some kind of surrounding, you go
through something.
Remember that for the translation of the museum, Okrand used the verb
{chIq} for crossing the ocean - but that's not what this is about here
either.
I understand the phrase as that he never sailed the ocean entirely, i.e.
he did not see everything of it. Maybe {lengchu'be'} is really enough.
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
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