tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 01 23:09:47 1995
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RE: A test (cha'logh jIjang)
- From: Will Martin <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: A test (cha'logh jIjang)
- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 02:09:21 -0500
- Encoding: 53 TEXT, 63 UUENCODE
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From: Matt-5[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 1995 8:43 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: A test (cha'logh jIjang)
>> maH chaHbogh maHbe'
>
>> How do you (pl.)[1] interpret that?
>
> I interpret it to be three Klingon words mashed together...
> charghwI'
Does this mean the Klingon mind has no capacity for extending itself? The
original sentence in English, 'We are not who we are', was not
particularly nice, but that did not make it a bad sentence. I refuse to
believe that Klingons are so intellectually bankrupt as to disallow any
deviation from their established language. The language of the warrior
must be flexible. Combat situations are anything but staid. And if the
language must be used in odd or ugly ways to say unusual things, then so
be it.
You asked for someone to interpret your untranslated collection of Klingon
words. You then apparently expected us to be psychic enough to understand
why you placed those particular words together in the same way you
understood them, even though people who speak the language fairly well
didn't come to that conclusion.
Meanwhile the original English is gibberish. X = ~X. Paradox. You can't
translate a concept that you can't explain, and you have not sufficiently
explained the meaning of the English sentence yet.
jIbelbe'. ngong tlhInganpu' chu' ghItlhtaHvIS 'e' bochaw'qangHa'chugh,
Heghpu' Holvam. mu'tlheghmey motlhbe' vIghItlhmeH tera'ngan Hol
vIlo'nIS'a'? tera'ngan Hol lI' law' tlhIngan Hol lI' puS 'e' bochID'a'?
[That second sentence is a little convoluted. What I wanted to say was:
'If you are not (mis-, more than just <be'>) willing to allow that new
Klingons experiment while writing, the language has died (already)]
There is a difference between disallowing experimentation and merely noting
when an experiment has failed. Your effort is commendable, but through this
particular experiment you have not produced a sentence which the most
fluent Klingon speakers on earth can understand.
Deal with it.
taghqIj
charghwI'
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