Re: Dune Conlang
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 12, 1999, 0:53 |
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FFlores wrote:
> The Fremen even celebrate the Ramadhan (sp?), and the vision of
> Paul-Muad'Dib is about a _jihad_.
Well, _jihad_ has been borrowed into English to mean a holy war.
Remember, there's also the Butlerian Jihadd, which had nothing to do
with the Fremen. (A war against too-sophisticated computers)
> What does _qfitzat haderekh_ mean? In the book it was 'the shortest
> path' (or 'way'... I'm back-translating from Spanish).
"Shortening of the Way" is the way it's rendered in the English text.
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