tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Feb 25 09:47:23 1995
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Re: Strange New World Book
> > 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.
Rpger writes:
> 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.
Even BETTER, regardless of what language we speak: Finnish, German,
French, Russian, English, a KLINGON bible would be a way for us to learn
Klingon without having to depend only on English.
This way, a Finn could open the Klingon bible, and a Suomi bible
side-by-side and begin learning Klingon without needing to know English....
Dave.