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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Bad Klingon in Trek novels (and the like)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Roney, Jr. PKT)
Tue Aug 7 01:55:23 2012
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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 01:55:08 -0400
From: "Michael Roney, Jr. PKT" <nahqun@gmail.com>
To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org>
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In response to Trek authors using Klingon:
I'd like to applaud the efforts of Keith R. A. DeCandido for his
excellent use of the language.
(And for naming a ship after my daughter!)
He has certainly taken the time to understand what he's doing.
That said, one of his books refers to {QongDaqpu'}.
Which reminded me of a scene in The Final Reflection where a kuve
contorts her body into a chair/bean bag to be sat upon.
(It's been a while, so forgive my memory.)
While it would certainly make for an interesting story to have one's
bed be a sentient life form; that's not what his intent was.
(I know, I e-mailed him about it.)
However, Michael A. Martin's use of the language was grating.
He used the words correctly enough; but he went out of his way to
explain them in English as well.
It's like watching a program for a pre-schooler where the host says a
phrase in Spanish, to someone who only speaks Spanish, and then
translates it into English for them.
I understood you the first time!
In response to MrKlingon
I have no problem with Joel, the person.
A while back, it came to his attention that I was compiling all of the
scraps of Klingon Bible translations from around the web.
He PM'd be to see if I had used any of his.
I'd rather eat dead qagh.
He understood, and said that he would've been surprised if I had been .
And there's supposed to be a link to a Human translator on his site,
but it seems to be broken.
~'anan naHQun
--
~Michael Roney, Jr.
Professional Klingon Translator
webOS Developer
http://www.twitter.com/roneyii
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