[91907] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] More new words from Maltz
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID jonpIn)
Sat Jan 28 06:08:37 2012
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20120126092626.04445bc0@flyingstart.ca>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:00:08 +0100
From: "De'vID jonpIn" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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>> (3) For "double agent," Maltz liked the slang expression jey'naS ghoqwI'
>> (literally, "double-headed ax spy"). =A0He said the non-slang term 'o'wen
>> could also be used for "double agent," but its meaning is a bit broader =
--
>> it's used to refer to someone (or something) of ambiguous status. =A0As
>> Maltz
>> put it, "You're not quite sure if it's this or that. You think it's one
>> thing, and it may be, but it may be another."
Qov:
> And who is the Owen in US culture or television to whom Marc refers?
Speaking of which, is there a reference behind {lInDab}? I'd always
assumed that there was a famous spy named Linda B., or some espionage
incident involving such a woman.
>> be straight (v) is wan =A0(so "crooked" or "bent" would be wanHa')
There is an Indo-European root "wanha" with exactly this meaning.
See, e.g., Table 10 row 9 in the following handout:
http://uni-freiburg.academia.edu/MartinK%C3%BCmmel/Papers/350091/The_distri=
bution_of_IE_roots_in_ND
wanha- 'bent, crooked' GES [=3D Gothic, English, Saxon]
Those of you who know Pali or Sanskrit might've recognised the
similarity to this:
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.3:1:881.pali
http://www.dicts.info/dictionary.php?l1=3DEnglish&l2=3DPali&word=3Dva%E1%B9=
%85ka&Search=3DSearch
>> model, example, pattern (n) is ghantoH =A0(Maltz is assuming this refers=
to
>> something one copies or refers to in making things -- =A0or something al=
ong
>> those lines)
Aside from the word "touchstone", is this a more specific reference?
For example, a reference to Touchstone Pictures?
-- =
De'vID
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