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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: nItlh naQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh)
Mon Jan 16 09:13:00 2012
From: Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh <qeslagh@hotmail.com>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:12:40 +1000
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ghItlhpu' quljIb, jatlh:
> I wouldn't use {ghItlh}, as the original meaning is "to carve/inscribe"
> such as with Ogham or Norse runes.
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jang De'vID, jatlh:
> But isn't that exactly what {ghItlh} is for?
jang je quljIb, jatlh:
> Right.=A0 But here we're talking about painting; applying pigment to a
> (presumably) flat surface.=A0 The Book of Kells was painted, not carved.
The *original* meaning of {ghItlh} may have been "to carve, to inscribe",
but it's come to have a much wider sense of "write, inscribe" that's not
restricted to carving of marks on a hard surface. I quote from KGT:
"The word {ghItlhwI'} (literally, "engraver") is also used for any writing
implement as well as for any person who writes. Indeed, the verb {ghItlh}
is most commonly translated as "write", but it always refers to the act of
writing - that is, of making marks on some surface - not to the act of
composition." (KGT pp. 79-80)
So {ghItlh} can describe the inscribing of the Book of Kells just fine.
QeS 'utlh
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