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Re: 'ovpu'ghach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 6 05:28:07 1994
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From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 94 10:30:05 GMT
Here it is again, with interlinear translation. It may not make much more
sense in English, but at least you'll see what I was trying to say:
'ov cha' SuvwI' Dun'
Two great warriors had a contest.
[The final "'" was a misprint.]
'etlhmo' SuvwI' wa'DIch qIp SuvwI' cha'DIch
The first warrior struck the second with his sword.
[Note, first = cha'DIch, second = wa'DIch!]
QuchDajDaq ghor'eghqu' 'etlh 'ej rIQta'be'
The sword shattered (itself) on his forehead, and he was unharmed.
["ghorqu''egh" might be better. The emphasis is on the breaking, not
the selfness.]
SuvwI' cha'DIch qIp SuvwI' wa'DIch
The second warrior struck the first.
SuvwI' cha'DIch 'elta' 'etlh 'ach rIQta'be'chu'qu'
The sword passed straight through him (lit. entered fully), but he was
unharmed!
[I'd agree with someone's comment that -chu'qu' is overkill.]
yay Suq SuvwI' cha'DIch
[Therefore] the first warrior was the winner.
"'elta'" is an unsatisfactory rendering of "straight through", but the
only thing I could come up with.
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Richard Kennaway __\_ / School of Information Systems
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