tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 27 17:56:53 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 09:56:53 +1200 (NZST)
On Thu, 27 Jul 1995, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> >Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 00:33:09 -0500
> >From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>
> >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.
>
> Damn straight it isn't. What's the English word for "Fajita"? Or "Huevos
> Rancheros"? There isn't one. Do we then decide we should call them
> "Relams"? No, we simply use the Spanish words in English (we don't even
> change the spelling). As a convenience, it's nice to mark them as foreign,
> with italics or asterisks or something, at least in Klingon, so we know not
> to bother looking things up.
>
> ~mark
>
D'oh! Very good point... Why do you guys have to be so damn *right* all
the time :)
Chris