tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 24 10:46:00 1995
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Re: Strange New World Book
- From: "ADM::RSORENSEN"@tiny.computing.csbsju.edu
- Subject: Re: Strange New World Book
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 12:44:24 -0600 (CST)
> I suspect the main reason why we want to translate the Bible is historical:
> it's just traditionally the book you translate into new languages. Also,
> it is pretty inarguably the most famous text in Western culture (like it or
> not, but you've undoubtedly heard of it), and arguably the most famous text
> on earth period, and is just a big honking chunk of text, so translating it
> would if nothing else demonstrate that the Klingon language *can* handle
> things of fairly large size.
>
> ~mark
I might add this spin to it... if you're going to learn a language, it
might as well be done in the context of a project which will hold your
interest. For many, the Bible is such a book.
Roger