tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 27 05:27:41 1994
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Re: Nonexistent words ...?
On Wed, 26 Oct 1994, William H. Martin wrote:
> According to [email protected]:
> > Hi... I am a new user to tlhIngan-Hol. My name is Michael and I come from
> > Aberdeen in Scotland.
> > I am currently doing a bit of (dodgy?!) Klingon for the Aberdeen University
> > Science Fiction and Fantasy group's fanzine, and I need some words that are
> > not in the Klingon Dictionary (1992 edition). Any bright ideas?
> >
> Probably the best approach is to post the sentences you want to
> write to this list with the "needed" words in English, set
> apart with quotes, as you'll see in many posts here. We can
> then either offer you the best word choice we can come up with,
> suggest a recasting of the sentence so you don't need the
> "missing" words, or suggest that you write the sentence with
> the English words, much like the French write "le weekend".
He didn't possibly mean that body of words that we have gleaned from
Okrand's smattering of new words in CK, PK, HolQeD and other works? Of
course, if he is looking for translations of words not available in TKD,
ignore this comment.