tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 13 03:52:33 1994
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- From: [email protected] (Mark E. Shoulson)
- Subject: tam poHvo'
- Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 15:48:45 -0400
- In-Reply-To: "William H. Martin"'s message of Fri, 13 May 94 9:26:11 EDT <[email protected]>
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>Date: Fri, 13 May 94 9:26:11 EDT
> As an analogy, begin with a picture, which is the
>thought, then cut it up into a jigsaw puzzle, in which the
>pieces are the English words. If you want to express this
>picture in Klingon, you need to look at the picture, then draw
>it again with Klingon pieces. You cannot always pull out an
>English puzzle piece, replace it with a Klingon puzzle piece,
>and repeat that process until the puzzle is now expressed in
>Klingon. Language does not work like that.
Brilliant analogy. I have to remember it.
>charghwI'
~mark