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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Klingon" in parody of Coke commercial
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Well we at Star Trek Phase II can reach a large audience and inform them about your Klingon translations. Our episodes reach millions of people.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The best way would be if you could translate our Klingon episode Kitumba for us so that we can release Klingon subtitles.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.startrekphase2.de/kitumba";>http://www.startrekphase2.de/kitumba</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Surely it would be a nice project that you guys can work on as a group and we have no problems giving you guys full credit for it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I remember meeting Lieven in person at the German FedCon Star Trek convention and talking about Klingon subtitles for Kitumba. At that time however, the episode was not finished.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>So if you guys can provide us with Klingon subtitles, we have the resources to inform a lot of people about your group.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Peter Walker<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, UK + Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Webmaster, Video Editing<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Subtitles Coordination<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.trekcon.de";>www.trekcon.de</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.startrekphase2.de";>www.startrekphase2.de</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.startrekphase2.com";>www.startrekphase2.com</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.startreknewvoyages.de";>www.startreknewvoyages.de</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.facebook.com/startrekphase2";>www.facebook.com/startrekphase2</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/startrekphase2DE";>www.facebook.com/startrekphase2DE</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/startrekphase2DE";>http://www.youtube.com/user/startrekphase2DE</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: PICHLMANN Christoph [mailto:[email protected]] <br>Sent: 10 February 2014 09:27<br>To: [email protected]<br>Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Klingon" in parody of Coke commercial</span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Message: 7<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:30:59 +0100<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>From: "De'vID" <<a href="mailto:[email protected]";><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>[email protected]</span></a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <<a href="mailto:[email protected]";><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>[email protected]</span></a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Klingon" in parody of Coke commercial<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Message-ID:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <<a href="mailto:CA+7zAmPnQ3YWDb-Tqybb6jDjunpz3pcKo4d1TGRT_m2iNgdGFg@mail.gmail.com";><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>CA+7zAmPnQ3YWDb-Tqybb6jDjunpz3pcKo4d1TGRT_m2iNgdGFg@mail.gmail.com</span></a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>De'vID:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>I think the issue is more that we (people who can correctly translate <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>English into Klingon) aren't very discoverable, whereas it's easy to <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>find Bing. Bing is the first result on Google for "Klingon <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>translation". :-) (Just be thankful it isn't Mr. Klingon any more.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>De'vID<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>True enough.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Is there something we (as in, those who are interested in klingon) can do something about that? Many of us have websites, I assume. Most probably can do whatever they want with them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I apologize for the malice in the following, but the KLI obviously cannot be trusted to do anything, as it can't even get the mailing list to work. (The messages from Lieven and De'vID are not on the web, only in the digest mail.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I'm not sure I like the following idea, because it smells of search engine manipulation, but would it be worth considering to set up identical pages (containing useful information and links to more information, not misleading keywords) on our own websites to create some sort of presence on the web that'll lead to a central(?) information hub?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Having a template to copy would reduce the amount of work necessary for the individual, while making the information easier to discover.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>If there was a good central information hub, I'd consider putting the link in forum signatures.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Or perhaps a website that contains a link to bing (or includes it, if that is allowed) together with simple rules to follow in order to at least produce halfway acceptable klingon? (If there is a way to do that - I don't have much experience with bing translate, I'm mostly guessing here.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Christoph<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Tlhingan-hol mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:[email protected]";><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>[email protected]</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol";><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>_______________________________________________
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