[88265] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: A bit of new canon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict)
Thu Sep 30 14:14:50 2010
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From: MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:03:47 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Are you sure that Okrand translated it?
lay'tel SIvten
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>wrote:
> Tracy Canfield attended Saturday's performance of "By Any Other Name: An
> Evening of Shakespeare in Klingon" by the Washington Shakespeare Company.
> She was kind enough to share with me the sign she spotted on the will-call
> tickets window:
> elmeH chaw'mey je'lu'ta'bogh
>
> She didn't see an initial apostrophe (she looked), but it's no doubt:
>
> 'elmeH chaw'mey je'lu'ta'bogh
> "entry permits that have (already) been purchased"
>
> Those of us who translated the signage for ComicCon 2010 will be gratified
> to see that we translated "ticket, entry pass" the same way. This suggests
> other types of permits:
>
> * lengmeH chaw' travel permit, passport
> * lIghmeH chaw' ticket, transport pass (e.g. train, bus, airplane,
> shuttlecraft, jitney)
> * 'ormeH chaw' pilot's license
>
> BTW we've seen this pattern before with {chaw'}:
>
> cha'puj vIngevmeH chaw' HInobneS
> Give me a permit to sell dilithium, your honor. (PK)
>
> So no grammatical surprises or vocabulary, but one more example of a
> "purpose noun".
>
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
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