[2832] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: tlhInghan *Sen*
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 27 06:41:19 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 11:42:09 GMT
>Your syntax took me a while to grok, but these were way too cool! (They
>weren't based on any real Zen, were they?) majQa'!
They were inspired by Zen and Taoism, though they aren't translations of
particular sayings. Instead, I reinterpreted some stories and sayings in
the spirit of Kahless. For example, the story of the master cook who never
needed to sharpen his chopper becomes the story of the master warrior who
never needed to sharpen his sword. That warrior's attitude to his
unfortunate questioner parallels the attitude of prickly Zen masters to
importunate students. :-)
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