tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 01 10:43:54 1997
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Re: Language jokes show English speaking bias...
- From: "Jarno Peschier" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Language jokes show English speaking bias...
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 19:45:09 +0100
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- Organization: Utrecht University, Computer Science
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On 24 Jul 97 at 20:47, Guido wrote:
> Okrand's habit of pilfering morphemes from the world over has the
> humorous consequence of your being haunted by Klingon with every
> semi-exotic language you study afterwards.
Well, I'd very much like to study more languages (exotic, semi-exotic
or otherwise) and perhaps someday I will, but for no it seems I won't
have the time and tlhIngan Hol will remain the only one. And even for
that I have little time, less than I would like. I would like to
become fluent in Klingon and build up an active knowledge vocabulary.
But for that you need to practise a lot. Put a lot of time into it.
Like when learning any old language well...
> >Qapla'
> >peSHIr
>
> Do' *Nederlands* ghItlhpatmo' tlhIngan ponglIj rurqu' ponglIj motlh.
Yes, it does. It's no coincidence. It just transliterated my name
into (romanized) pIqaD after explicitly noticing that a lot of the
sounds in Dutch (that most foreigners learning the language normally
find difficult) are just part of basic Klingon sounds. ;-)
[I'll just reply to your little Dutch text off the list.]
Jarno Peschier, computer science student, Utrecht University
mailto:[email protected] http://jarno.home.ml.org/
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