[87463] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Internet abused by terrible tweets in Klingon!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Doty)
Thu Dec 3 02:40:31 2009
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From: Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:37:53 -0800
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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And in case anyone was curious, this is the sort of terrible nonsense
that makes project's like Tracy's important...
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 23:26, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com> wrote:
> The site linked from the article below is offering to translate your
> English into Klingon and post it to Twitter. Except that it doesn't
> translate anything. It just fills in the Klingon word for the English
> word. With appalling results. "I want to eat gagh" was rendered by
> it as <jIH neH Daq Sop gagh>.
>
> http://scifiwire.com/2009/12/how-to-tweet-in-klingon-a.php
>
> There is lots of disagreement on this list about various things, but I
> think we can agree on one thing: the locative suffix <-Daq> should
> never be used as a word unto itself, especially to form an infinitive
> (!!).
>
> Chris
>
