tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 27 07:17:31 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. 
> 
Yes, I did mean other words in CK, PK, and any other source. ANYTHING!!



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