[83884] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: DawI' - ghetwI'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jan 8 16:04:42 2008
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:02:07 -0600
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4782B2BB.1090901@trimboli.name>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Steven Boozer:
> > Aside from the fact that the KLI has used {DawI'} in _The Klingon Hamlet_,
> > either would seem to work just as well... at least until Maltz shares his
> > opinion. Besides, we have several words for it in
> English: actor/actress,
> > performer, player, thespian, etc.
SuStel:
>{ghetwI'}, of course, had not yet been revealed to us when Hamlet was
>restored by the KLI, so its use of {DawI'} over {ghetwI'} can hardly be
>held up as a KLI preference...
Granted, but {DawI'} has been used for years within the Klingonist
community, having been coined IIRC by the KLI-sponsored Klingon Shakespeare
Restoration Project (KSRP) and thus carries something of the blessings of
the KLI (if any). Not to mention the fact that the KLI's translation of
Hamlet has been published and widely distributed in two editions: one by
the KLI itself (in two versions of 26 and 1000 copies) and a much larger
commercial one by Simon & Schuster.
(I just checked and, to my surprise, even my own library owns a copy. And
no, I didn't donate it to the University of Chicago!)
-- Voragh
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Steven L. Boozer
Cataloging Department sboozer@uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Library (773) 702-8726
