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{Hogh} (was: Re: KLBC: Short and Easy)

• From: "Robyn Stewart" <[email protected]>
• Subject: {Hogh} (was: Re: KLBC: Short and Easy)
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:43:11 PST
• Organization: NLK Consultants, Inc.
• Priority: normal

HovqIj wrote:
>Qov wrote:
>> At 23:54 97-12-15 -0800, James Coupe wrote:
>>
>> }>chay' yuQvam wIchargh?
>> }
>> }nganpu' Hogh tIHoH
>>
>> This *is* a noun-noun with a you-them imperative, and perfectly
>> correct Klingon for "Kill the inhabitants' weeks!" 
>
>The person who wrote this sentence isn't German, is he? The GREAT 
>DOW (German TKD) really says "schwach"("weak") for {Hogh}!!! :/

Ok, this is getting ridiculous.  It's worse than the Hungarian 
phrasebook in the Monty Python television skit.   Evidence prevented 
seems to suggest that the people responsible for DOW have no 
knowledge of Klingon, and an imperfect knowledge of both English and 
German.  If they cannot find a trilingual English/Klingon/target 
language speaker the least they could do is run it by someone who is 
fluent in each language before it goes to press.  How can we stop 
them from doing this again?  Our language community is small enough.  
We don't need mutually unintelligible dialects.

-Qov

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