[84382] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Meteor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Apr 10 15:57:05 2008
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:55:32 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E1Jk2Ym-0002lo-5l@chain.digitalkingdom.org>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
At 02:33 PM Thursday 4/10/2008, Jonathan Webley wrote:
>Do you remember the translation required for a "meteor" in a Scottish
>mountain biking centre?
>
>The artist, Ronnie Heeps, has sent me a picture of the sculpture:
>http://mughom.wikia.com/wiki/nagh_beQ:Glentress_stane.jpg
>
>I don't know who supplied the translation that he has used. Apparently the
>text runs around the stone, I don't have the full transcript that he is
>using.
Hmm... not exactly how I pictured it when we hammered out the translation,
but similar to the school of abstract-ish sculptures we saw in KCD. Pity
he chose not to use pIqaD; now *that* would have attracted more
attention! (He could have put the transliteration and translation on a
plaque on the side.) Still, it is Klingon sculpture.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
