tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 26 11:12:05 2011
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Re: Translation Assistance
This might be a good starting point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:N-true/List_of_Klingon_computer_terms
I've used this list before as a reference when translating computer terms.
qurgh
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Robyn Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think there should be a project to standardize metaphors and
> language for computer systems in Klingon. While I know it would
> facilitate terrible Klingon translations by people who got a hold of
> the list without knowing anything about the language it wouldn't make
> such translations any worse or any less common than they would
> otherwise be and it would give us a ghost of a chance of understanding them.
>
> More importantly it would facilitate the task of making GOOD
> translations, and not make me just ignore such projects, as too much
> work for a mediocre result.
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> At 08:26 26/07/2011, you wrote:
>>naHQun/Michael Roney, Jr. PKT:
>> > I'm almost at the deadline of my latest project.
>> > The following words/phrases are still untranslated. I haven't given
>> > up on them, but it'd be nice to get some suggestions from others.
>> > Some of them will be really easy once I get one or two words.
>> Like "filter".
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>>I've used the verb {buv} "classify" for "sort, filter, catalog,
>>file" in the past. My notes show that *{buvHa'} was used by someone
>>on the List for "misfile" and someone else used {veQ QIn buvwI'} for
>>"junk mail filter".
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>> > Insert Link
>> > Remove Link
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>>I've seen *{rarwI'} used for "connection, link" here on the List.
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>> > Search Mailboxes
>>
>>For "mailbox" how about *{QInghom}?
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>>--
>>Voragh
>>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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