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Re: Translation Assistance

Robyn Stewart ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

You can contact him on the discussion page. I'm 
so happy that someone has taken it upon 
themselves to collect the terms I don't care. If 
you want to do it and do a better job, I'll be even happier.

At 11:41 26/07/2011, you wrote:
>Aside from "Note that the terms I'm coining here 
>are in now way canon translations" making it 
>clear just how much this has not been proofread, 
>it irks me that someone anonomously writes to a public forum things like:
>? when I worked on?
>? I made a list?
>? terms that I had to come up with?
>? I think this might come useful?
>? terms I'm coining here?
>? which I kept ?
>? I didn't invent?
>? I will give?
>? I am getting the idea?
>? if you can inform me?
>
>How does this person expect anybody to "inform 
>me" when there's no contact info or 
>identification of any kind for the person who 
>wrote this? Surely, the concept of deixis is 
>lost on this individual. Or perhaps the person 
>did identify him/herself and it got scrubbed 
>when someone else edited it? If that's the case, 
>then the editor deserves public humiliation.
>
>pItlh.
>lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
>
>
>
>On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:10 PM, qurgh lungqIj wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >>
> >> 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".
> >>>
> >>> 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".
> >>>
> >>>> Insert Link
> >>>> Remove Link
> >>>
> >>> I've seen *{rarwI'} used for "connection, link" here on the List.
> >>>
> >>>> Search Mailboxes
> >>>
> >>> For "mailbox" how about *{QInghom}?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Voragh
> >>> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >

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