tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Oct 29 14:21:20 2011
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries
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It's an awesome theory. And they generated this CD ROM for their
comrades to many of the languages of this planet, but the first
batch got screwed up so they only had pronunciation for the Klingon and
not the target languages, and the computer generated voices messed up
some of the Klingon, too. so they dumped the lot here, and we got
them.<br><br>
At 13:23 29/10/2011, Josh Badgley wrote:<br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier">I had a thought while I was re-reading
your email. Perhaps I am missing the point of the new Eurotalk
software, but let me explain my crackpot theory.</font><br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier">Let's say this CD really "covers
everyday words Klingons would use if they lived on Earth today", as
Eurotalk's website says. So pretend a Klingon decides to visit 21st
century Earth, for whatever reason. Maybe a whole expedition visits earth
and they scatter out across the various nations of the planet. I would
imagine this would be a situation analagous to the first European
"explorers" visiting the Far East for the first time, or the
Americas, or any other remote corner of the world. Now assume our
Klingon friend doesn not speak any Terran languages. Instead, he
(or she) has to learn bit by bit the native language of wherever they
wind up. So one Klingon arrives in Germany and picks up some
German. Perhaps they don't master German, but they learn enough to
get by. For him (or her), the name of the country is
"Deutschland", not "Germany". Later on this
Klingon relates his/her adventures to other Klingons. Maybe he has
to file a report to his superiors. He tells them he's been on this weird
planet. He says specifically he had spent time in a nation that the
natives called DoyIchlan. So that's the word that gets added to the
Klingon lexicon.</font><br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier">Maybe? <br>
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-- jhb<br>
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From: [email protected]<br>
To: [email protected]; [email protected]<br>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:08:51 -0500<br>
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries<br><br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier">vuQ...De'vamvaD qatlho'. <br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier">'ach DaH Sepvetlh pong 'oH nu'SIylan'e'
'ej vIparHa'. Sachmo' tlhIngan Hol jIQuch. De' jengva'vam
'oHlaw' bI'reS'e'. jISeyqu'.</font><br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier"> <br><br>
-- jhb<br>
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> From: [email protected]<br>
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:35:40 +0200<br>
> To: [email protected]<br>
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries<br>
> <br>
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 19:06, Josh Badgley
<[email protected]> wrote:<br>
> > The New Zealand thing throws me not because they didn't use the
Maori name,<br>
> > but because "New" does not translate to
"nu"...I get the "SIylan" part<br>
> > though..<br>
> <br>
> In Tongan, it's Nu?u Sila (Nu'u Sila); in Niuean, it's Niu
Silani.<br>
> <br>
> Both those Polynesian languages (many of whose speakers live in
NZ)<br>
> transcribed, rather than translated, the "New" bit.<br>
> <br>
> Struck me as odd when I learned about that, but that's the way it
is. *shrug*<br>
> <br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Philip<br>
> -- <br>
> Philip Newton <[email protected]><br>
> <br>
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