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Re: Suggestions for Marc Okrand: homophones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 12 15:59:55 1993
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From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 12 May 93 11:21:40 EST
A.APPLEYARD writes:
> There should be a Klingon verb for "exist".
I won't swear to it, but I'm pretty sure plenty of tera'ngan
languages get along just fine without one. Note that ours is a
loan word (from Latin), not native. I suspect that when a
Klingon needs to talk about something existing without specifying
anything else about it he uses tu'lu'.
Personal note for an example: Last Friday night in synagogue in
meditation/prayer I thought/prayed, in Klingon:
'aDonay, Datu'lu''a'? qatu'laH'a'?
I won't translate it because the parallelism doesn't carry over
into English. And that's part of the point. ('aDonay = Adonai
'Lord'.)
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com
nubejtaHchugh jubwI', HaghtaHbej
