[Tlhingan-hol] The Dhammapada: A Klingon Translation, verses 1-2

[Terrence Donnelly]

Just remember, Josh, that getting others' input is always desirable, and having grammar vetted is essential, but in the end, it's your translation. 
We don't have to agree with every choice you make.

-- ter'eS

--- On Wed, 12/21/11, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> From: Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] The Dhammapada: A Klingon Translation, verses 1-2
> To: "tlhingan-hol at kli.org" <tlhingan-hol at kli.org>
> Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2011, 10:18 AM
> Michael Everson:
> >> vemqu'wI'?
> 
> De'vID:
> 
> > I had earlier suggested {vemta'wI'} for <buddha>
> (and {vemchu'ta'wI'}
> > for <samma sambuddha>).  We can throw some
> {qu'}s in there.
> 
> Instead of trying for a hyper-correct, overly-long
> translation of *Buddha*, you could go another way and just
> use his name:  *{ghotam}, *{gho'tam}, *{ghawtam}, etc.
> 
> 
> A good overview for the non-Buddhists on the list are the
> Wikipedia articles:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammapada 
> The title, Dhammapada, is a compound term composed of
> dhamma and pada, each word having a number of denotations
> and connotations. Generally, dhamma can refer to the
> Buddha's "doctrine" or an "eternal truth" or "righteousness"
> or all "phenomena"; and, at its root, pada means "foot" and
> thus by extension, especially in this context, means either
> "path" or "verse" (cf. "prosodic foot") or both. English
> translations of this text's title have used various
> combinations of these and related words.
> 
> and
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha 
> Siddhārtha Gautama (... Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a
> spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, on whose
> teachings Buddhism was founded. In most Buddhist traditions,
> he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (P. sammāsambuddha, S.
> samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age, "Buddha" meaning "awakened
> one" or "the enlightened one." Siddhārtha Gautama may also
> be referred to as Gautama Buddha or as Śākyamuni ("Sage of
> the Śākyas").
> 
> 
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> 
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