[94285] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Bad Klingon in Trek novels (and the like)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven Litaer)
Sun Aug 5 08:14:47 2012
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:14:32 +0200
From: Lieven Litaer <lieven.litaer@web.de>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E87711C35EFF@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Am 05.08.2012 10:38, schrieb Felix Malmenbeck:
> However, in Joel's defense, he is a serious klingonist
[..]
> However, he is very honest about it, so I would advise you against hating him; criticize the project all you want, but the man behind it seems like a perfectly nice individual and a good klingonist.
Sure!
"hating" sound a lot to strong, and it's not against him in person. My
sincere apologies if this might offend anyone. It's just the project
that I really not like.
I have respect for Joel Anderson, and I know he has been on this list
for a long time.
The UTA is really annoying, I keep getting message like {jIH rur SoH}
and {Dun vum pol ghoS} etc and I see immediately where it comes from,
especially when there are untranslated bits in it.
What is even worse is when you find a page "teaching" Klingon, and it
contains these automatic phrases.
When I Google translate into English what it sees not at all that bad,
but if it's just simple word for word, then it really comes out just
scrap it? ghorgh jIH [Google] [translate] Daq [English] nuq 'oH [sees]
ghobe' Daq Hoch vetlh qab 'ach chugh [it's] [just] nap mu' vaD mu' vaj
'oH [really] choltaH pa' [just] [scrap] 'oH.
By the way, 99% of the users never read the small print.
:-(
Lieven.
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