tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 27 17:22:07 1995
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Re: }}} Dialects (was: Klingon paintball)
- From: Chris Nielsen <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: }}} Dialects (was: Klingon paintball)
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 09:22:07 +1200 (NZST)
On Thu, 27 Jul 1995, Alan Anderson wrote:
> Chris Nielsen writes:
> >...I therefore propose we form our own dialect. This seems to be the largest
> >active group of Klingon speakers in the world, so why not a sort of human
> >dialect?
>
> Because it would be bad. :-)
[Thoughtful stuff deleted <G>]
This goes out to you and yoDtargh, who also kindly replied.
Ok, I obviously misunderstood the purpose of this list. Having had this
clarified somewhat, a lot of things now make sense. Thanks guys (and
girls?)!
I'm not too proud to admit it when I'm wrong (well nearly, but not quite :).
> By the way, it's common practice here to simply drop in a word or two in
> English when the dictionary fails. An untranslatable food name isn't
> always cause for another Klingon word.
Ahhhh! I presume this would be true for the 'mirror' discussion too...
Chris