tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 25 20:32:48 1996
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Re: What's Klingon for "Bingo?"
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: What's Klingon for "Bingo?"
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 22:06:31 -0500
What's Klingon for "Bingo"? {pItlh}, of course.
[What's English for {bIngo'}? "You are old." :-)]
David Wood writes:
[regarding Scrabble]
>First problem is the letter values. To figure those, we'll need a letter
>frequency table.
We've got one. It was even posted here recently. In fact, it was the
basis for the Scrabble game that also was mentioned here recently. I
expect someone will bring a suitably modified Scrabble set to the qep'a'.
>It'd be easy if there were something like the Klingon
>equivalent of, say, the Brown Corpus, but there isn't. There aren't enough
>samples of conversation to analyze. Perhaps when the vocabulary gains another
>order of magnitude...
We've got plenty of stuff to analyze -- there are many books of the Bible,
several short fables, and the entirety of Hamlet. The letter frequencies
tend to be pretty reliable.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj