tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 26 22:33:09 1998
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Re: Unofficial words (Was: Re puqpu')
- From: WestphalWz <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Unofficial words (Was: Re puqpu')
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 01:32:56 EST
- Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
In a message dated 98-01-25 01:59:18 EST, ghunchu'wI' writes to peHruS:
<< Tell me, please -- what is your goal? I wish to communicate. If that
means
writing descriptions to explain things for which there is no corresponding
simple vocabulary, that's what I'll do. If that means using English names
like "Kelvin" and units of measure like "acre", that's what I'll do.
>I, for one--and I am not alone--wish for the real Klingon words.
Your "wish list" of isolated words intrigued me. Perhaps your familiarity
with the existing vocabulary isn't strong enough for you to recognize when
there's a reasonably simple way to explain something, or perhaps what you
mean by a word like "bounce" is a bit more involved than what I think of.
But usually when you do provide the entire sentence you're trying to say in
Klingon, the idea is easily expressed using the existing vocabulary. The
*words* are not always translatable, but the concept comes through fine.
>>
------peHruS answers----------
bIlugh
maQumnIS 'ej jIQum vIneH je jIH
lutlIj maS ngan Suchlu' vItIvchu'
Dun 'oH
mu'mey chu' vIneH 'ej DuvuQmo' jIQuch
teH tlhIngan Hol mu'mey ngebbe' DISuq 'e' vItul
Hol teH rur Holvam ngeb
qun ngaj ghajchugh tlhIngan wo' vaj mu'mey law' ghaj je tlhIngan Hol 'e' vIHar
'ach wej mu'meyvetlh DISov
peHruS