tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 19 13:50:31 2001
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Re: KLBC: Patience makes perfect
- From: Lwaxana Troi/Arania Lawakiro <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Patience makes perfect
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:57:19 +0100
- Organization: Kedanya Station/Dark Brotherhood
- References: <[email protected]>
> I also read Pagh-le' mail. You will inevitably have to include non-klingon
> words as terms like mahayana, buddha, boddhisatva, dharma, sangha are
> practically untranslatable. You might be best off transliterating these
> words and then explaining them, which is how English translators of
> Buddhism work. Rather than coining new terms.
>
Why would those not be translatable? I agree it would sound bad, as it does in
German, hence we hardly do use translated versions, but it should work for the
most of them.
JaHinTa'