Re: Dune Conlang

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:34:04 -0300 FFlores <fflores@...> writes:
> What does _qfitzat haderekh_ mean? In the book it was 'the shortest
> path' (or 'way'... I'm back-translating from Spanish).
>
>
> --Pablo Flores
>   http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/
.


In Dune it means "a shortening of the way", in Hebrew it means more
exactly "a jump of the way".  It's a specific kind of miracle in which it
takes you a very short time to travel a distance that should take you
much longer.


-Stephen (Steg)

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