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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Klingon" in parody of Coke commercial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PICHLMANN Christoph)
Mon Feb 10 03:27:13 2014
From: PICHLMANN Christoph <Christoph.PICHLMANN@agrana.com>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:26:49 +0000
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:30:59 +0100
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Klingon" in parody of Coke commercial
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De'vID:
>I think the issue is more that we (people who can correctly translate
>English into Klingon) aren't very discoverable, whereas it's easy to
>find Bing. Bing is the first result on Google for "Klingon
>translation". :-) (Just be thankful it isn't Mr. Klingon any more.)
>
>--
>De'vID
True enough.
Is there something we (as in, those who are interested in klingon) can do something about that? Many of us have websites, I assume. Most probably can do whatever they want with them.
I apologize for the malice in the following, but the KLI obviously cannot be trusted to do anything, as it can't even get the mailing list to work. (The messages from Lieven and De'vID are not on the web, only in the digest mail.)
I'm not sure I like the following idea, because it smells of search engine manipulation, but would it be worth considering to set up identical pages (containing useful information and links to more information, not misleading keywords) on our own websites to create some sort of presence on the web that'll lead to a central(?) information hub?
Having a template to copy would reduce the amount of work necessary for the individual, while making the information easier to discover.
If there was a good central information hub, I'd consider putting the link in forum signatures.
Or perhaps a website that contains a link to bing (or includes it, if that is allowed) together with simple rules to follow in order to at least produce halfway acceptable klingon? (If there is a way to do that - I don't have much experience with bing translate, I'm mostly guessing here.)
Christoph
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