tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 02 18:50:21 1996
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Re: Well. Formerly Re: KLBC: jIlIH'egh [Introduction]
- From: Krenath <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Well. Formerly Re: KLBC: jIlIH'egh [Introduction]
- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 21:50:25 -0400
At 04:35 PM 8/2/96 -0700, someone posing as you wrote:
>What's the Klingon word "doornail"? What is a doornail,
>anyway? I know it is dead. Very dead. But if I saw one, I
>would probably not recognize it as an object with that name.
lojmIt_pIp (<door-spine>. <nail> vItu'laHbe') -Daq DIng pagh SIH lojmIt.
"yavDaq bIQHal "? <Pit> pagh <hole> jIlo' vIneH
Ya know, it woulda been nice to have an pretty much unabridged word listing
for a well-established language, weed out synonyms in favor of the more
common words, then, based on how common a word is, sort of 'Huffman-encode'
the old language using a new language's phonology, meaning more commonly
used words get shorter names in the new language.
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