Claudia Krysztofiak Oct 5, 2004:

I think Rushdie can be rather poetic and poets have the right to their own wording. Therefore, the translator has to be creative. But I still think this should not go into the standard glossary then. Eric: context means give a whole sentence, please.

Claudia Krysztofiak Oct 5, 2004:

Wow, that hit you hard, did it? There was no personal offense meant even though obviously and heavily taken. Still I stick to my opinion. I checked several German dictionaries for this and related words not just Google, and it is not to be found.

Non-ProZ.com (asker) Oct 5, 2004:

lepidopteral I find the comment of Claudia Krysztofiak quite presumptuous. I hadn't given the page numbers because the word appears on different pages. But the definitions offered in this forum are quite in line with the contexts. The meaning has indeed to do with butterflies and especially the definition of David Moore fits exactly the description and context. Thanks David Moore. Perhaps you (Claudia K.) should read the book. By the way the author (I hadn't mentioned it) is Salman Rushdie.

Derek Gill Franßen Oct 4, 2004:

JUST FOR CLARIFICATION: How does anyone really know that my word doesn't exist? Because they can't find it with Google? One can't find fitting matches with the other suggestions either. I didn't enter this "supposedly" non-existent word into the glossary.

Claudia Krysztofiak Oct 4, 2004:

Even if this question is closed and the asker seems to be happy with a non-existing word for a creative text without having given any context, at least it should not be taken into the KudoZ glossary.