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Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com)
Wed Apr 16 21:16:33 2008
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:13:50 EDT
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In a message dated 4/16/2008 19:02:30 PM Central Daylight Time,
markjreed@mail.com writes:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:01 PM, <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
> > Is there another word after "lingua dei"? That just means "language of
> the".
> > Something meaning "warriors". "Guerrieri", perhaps?
>
> Latin has several words you could translate as "warrior" - Guerrieri
> isn't one of them. Unless you count modern Italian as very, very late
> Latin. :)
>
> The most literal translation is probably "bellator" (-> lingua
> bellatoris). No doubt that's what be'tor is short for. :)
>
> There's also "duelis" (-> lingua duelis), where we get "duel"; that
> one has a nice ring to it.
>
> In the sense of "professional soldier", the word was "miles" (->
> lingua militis), whence we get "military". In Medieval Latin "miles"
> was used for "knight"...
>
Here's a more complete version of the email text from Voragh:
In a message dated 4/16/2008 13:36:53 PM Central Daylight Time,
sboozer@uchicago.edu writes:
> During my work at the University of Chicago Library, I've stumbled upon two
> interesting illustrated dictionaries of artificial/imaginary languages
> which, inter alia, discuss Klingon:
>
>
> Paolo Albani and Berlinghiero Buonarroti's _Aga magèra difùra: dizionario
> delle lingue immaginarie_. Bologna: Zanichelli, 1994. ("Klingon, lingua
> dei" pp. 213-214.)
>
> Tim Conley and Stephen Cain's _Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic
> Languages_. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006. ("Klingonese" and the
> other languages of Star Trek pp. 169-173; article includes a fairly
> complete bibliography.)
>
The title "Dizionario delle lingue immaginarie" is in Italian, so I used
Italian words, not Latin.
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