tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 27 00:47:19 1994
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Re: for beginners
- From: [email protected] (Robert Baruch)
- Subject: Re: for beginners
- Date: Fri, 27 May 94 12:44:33 EDT
| From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
|
| Write something in Klingon. It doesn't have to be especially
| challenging, though eventually you do want to throw in
| challenging things along with simple ones.
|
| Now, put aside what you wrote where you can find it later.
| Leave it alone long enough to forget the process of having
| written it.
|
| Now, go back and READ what you WROTE. Is this the best way to
| express this thought in Klingon? Try to polish it.
Perhaps write something in Klingon and then get someone else
to translate it back into English. Now compare the original
English to the translated English. The key here is that
someone who doesn't know anything about what you said translates.
If you got your point across, the translation was a success.
QIt chupghachwIj vInIDtaH.
rut mu'tlheghmey tlhIngan Hol vImugh 'e' vIQap.
vaj jIjang 'e' vInID.
Of course, if you don't have anyone available, the excercise of charghwI'
is a good idea.
--Rob