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Re: Klingon translation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Fri Jun 26 13:41:05 2009

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:38:09 -0400
From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Steven Boozer<sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Michael Everson:
>>> The North Wind and the Sun...
>
> Some vocabulary suggestions:
>
> {'ev}  "area northwestward, area towards the northwest" (n.)
>
> Not exactly north, but it'll do.

If the goal is to translate something close to "north", it's fine. But
is the direction really the important concept to focus on?

-- ghunchu'wI'




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