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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 10:09:21 2012
From: Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh <qeslagh@hotmail.com>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:09:09 +1000
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jIjatlhpu':
> 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.
mujang quljIb, jatlh:
> Of course. But since we're talking about a book that is considered
> *the* height of medieval calligraphy, I would use {DIj} alone. I see
> the Book as a work of *visual* art, of artistic creation, not a work of
> writing alone.
I don't disagree. I was focused only upon what you were saying about the
word {ghItlh}; I just wanted to point out that what you were saying about
the inappropriateness of {ghItlh} was based on a limited statement of what
the Klingon word {ghItlh} means.
> Personal preference, perhaps.
A written text and a work of visual art need not be mutually exclusive,
as the Book of Kells shows. The Klingon term {ghItlhwI'} finds use in
sculpture as well as writing - it wouldn't shock me to discover Klingons
had a very high tradition of calligraphy as art.
QeS 'utlh
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