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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Bad Klingon in Trek novels (and the like)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Mon Aug 6 15:18:54 2012

In-Reply-To: <501E83BD.9040307@trimboli.name>
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 19:20:40 -0600
To: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
Cc: "tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
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At 20,000', trusting the autopilot, I'll tell you the harm. 

Imagine I've bought a TKD and it captures my imagination. I wonder if people could really learn this. I've -heard- of people speaking Klingon. So I check out the bible thing. It's gibberish. Oh well, I guess no one really does this, and a potential Klingonist is lost. 

That's similar to what happened to me. 

Also I finished this after landing. 



On 2012-08-05, at 8:31, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:

> On 8/5/2012 5:06 AM, De'vID wrote:
>> 
>> But OTOH actually publishing a Kindle version of the Psalms in
>> pseudo-Klingon has done a lot of harm to the Klingonist community by
>> perpetuating the idea that a word-by-word substitution counts as a
>> "translation".
> 
> Those who know better won't be fooled; those who don't know better won't care. I don't see any point to it, but neither do I see any particular harm.
> 
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