tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 02 05:46:00 1994
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for beginners
- From: [email protected] (Mark E. Shoulson)
- Subject: for beginners
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 17:41:59 -0400
- In-Reply-To: Heidi Wessman's message of Tue, 2 Aug 1994 09:17:36 -0600 (MDT) <[email protected]>
>From: Heidi Wessman <[email protected]>
>Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 09:17:36 -0600 (MDT)
>On Sat, 30 Jul 1994, ghItlhpu' HoD trI'Qal:
>> >
>> > Please do! And go with my blessing.
><kiddingly>: after all, aren't we translating the bible to Klingon to
>convert all those heathens? ;) (There's a really nasty argument going on
>right now on alt.startrek.klingon about the bible translation. tlhaQwI'
>vIQub)
<not kiddingly> No, we are not. Please tell folks there that converting
*anyone* was never the purpose of this, and is actually a pretty stupid
thing to believe. What, there are really Klingons out there who need the
Bible to be translated so their souls can be saved? Or Trekkers who are so
enthralled by Trek that their belief or disbelief in religion is likely to
be swayed by someone bothering to translate the text? Please! I'm Jewish,
at any rate, and Judaism doesn't proselytize. I have no interest in trying
to convert anyone, and wouldn't have much respect for someone who found the
existence or non-existence of a translation of the Bible into one language
or another a cogent argument for or against belief.
We're translating it because it's there. Because it's the most translated
text in history. Because it's the most well-known text in Western culture.
Because it's a big honking corpus whose translation would demonstrate the
flexibility of the language for big, complex tasks. We're not religious
nuts. The ones I know, at any rate.
>-----------------
>chuQun, putting in her two-cents worth
~mark