[88108] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: 'u': the first authentic Klingon opera on earth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Jul 28 12:01:04 2010
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:52:21 -0500
In-Reply-To: <53BA28A6-03D3-48A9-8D93-4B1798619DDE@gmail.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Felix:
| Sounds to me like:
| poH tuj bI'reS nungbogh wa' jaj.
| {A day which precedes the warm season's (opera/play/speech/...)-
| beginning.} {A warm-season-beginning which precedes a day.}
| He might have meant something like "The opera begins on a day
| which is preceded by the warm period of time."
Summarizing:
poH tuj bI'reS nungbogh wa' jaj qeylIS DIS chorghvatlh loSmaH jav qaStaHvIS [sic]
"In the days that follow the summer solstice in the Year of Kahless 846."
So he seems to be using {wa' jaj} "one day" generally - i.e. one of the days that follow the summer solstice, not one day (exactly) before the solstice. He's used {wa' jaj} for "one (unspecified) day" in a time stamp before:
wa' jaj 'etlh 'uchchoHlaH tlhIngan puqloD; jajvetlh loD nen moj.
The son of a Klingon is a man the day he can first hold a blade. TKW
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
