[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: HI'tuy

[jaSwa']

That seems fair. I was just pointing out that "dictator" wasn't inherently negative and I felt that augmenting a noun wouldn't change its connotation or add one that wasn't there. You make good points. Besides, Klingon is full of enough exceptions and odd things to fill its own book (but then again, so are most langauges in general), and augmenting "dictator" into "tyrant" isn't much of a stretch, anyway due to the way they tend to be used as synonyms nowadays (as I can count the amount of dictators that weren't tyrants one hand because "absolute power corrupts absolutely"). Besides, one person's tyrant is another's hero. Just people about Abe Lincoln.

jaSwa'

Hochlogh bechjaj Hoch jaghpu'wI'

Lieven <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:

>
>> jaSwa':
>>> I wouldn't translate HI''a' as "tyrant," because "dictator" doesn't
>
>ja' voragh:
>> Perhaps that's its usage on Earth, but in Klingon culture Molor is always referred to as "the tyrant Molor"
>
>Okay, then why not? I can live with
>
>{HI'} "dictator"
>{HI''a'} "tyrant"
>
>If that's the klingon way to express it.
>
>We shouldn't forget that many of those words with {-'a'} and {-Hom} 
>cannot always be translated literally from klingon to english. A 
>{be'Hom} is not an "inferior woman", or a {bIQ'a'} is more than just a 
>big piece of water - and shouldn't ocean be ngeng'a'?
>
>When searching for a word for "tyrant", the translator maybe thought 
>something like "Hey, a {HI'} is really not negative, let's make it a 
>{HI''a'} - that might be very close."
>
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>Lieven L. Litaer
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