[87388] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: "Authentic" Klingon materials
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Tue Dec 1 13:49:31 2009
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <f1d476f10912011024ha74ce74ib8462708737b5c60@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:46:31 +0000
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On 1 Dec 2009, at 18:24, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Michael Everson
> <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
>> On 1 Dec 2009, at 17:00, Steven Boozer wrote:
>>
>>> puH (wo'?) taQDaq leng 'alIS
>>> Alice travels in the weird country (empire?)
>>
>> Empire is OK; it is a monarchy over there.
>
> chay' "monarchy" 'oHlaH? luche'law' cha' "King"-pu', "Queen"-pu'
> law' je.
Yes, Kings and Queens abound in Wonderland. Evidently it has several
jurisdictions.
(In Anna Matlack Richards' 1895 "A New Alice in the Old Wonderland" --
an excellent read which I am re-publishing this month -- she
explicitly refers to various castles and so on.
OK, so Wonderland perhaps is a "chaotic monarchy".
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
