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Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM> From: awest@netlink.nix.com (Amy West) To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 02:51:55 PST Reply-To: awest@netlink.nix.com Nick NICHOLAS wrote: >But 'good taste' is there to be crossed over... isn't it? ;) I'm with you on that! <grin> >My response on soc.culture.esperanto was that maybe I was >wasting my time, but it's *my* time to waste. The fascination >with Klingon translation is the challenge of trying to express >yourself (let alone express someone else's thoughts) in a >language of which you have only a bare-bones definition. You >have to play it by ear in many a place; in fact, you're >inventing a stylistics; something you don't often get to do in >English (but which, of course, happens all the time in 'Third >World' literatures.) The choice of the Bible is rightly >contentious, but I doubt our Shakespeare efforts will >necessarily make more fans --- the opposite, in fact; I'm sure >many of the Great Unwashed doubt Shakespeare could (or should) >have been translated into *German*, let alone Turkish, not to >mention Esperanto, never mind Klingon. I, for one, have an interest in seeing some Shakespeare translated, and there's a few others that I know of who would; so it may not go over so bad after all. >And WE AREN'T ALL TREKKIES! ;) Well I know you don't exactly get a whole lotta Trek down there in Australia.. I know this because I tape both of the shows for a fellow in Sydney. -- Amy West ----------------------------------------------------- ---- Internet: awest@netlink.nix.com -- Fidonet: 1:202/701.8 ---- --------- Network Information eXchange * San Diego, CA ----------
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