tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jul 30 15:23:58 1995
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Re: }}} Dialects (was: Klingon paintball)
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: }}} Dialects (was: Klingon paintball)
- Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 14:23:58 -0500
I wrote:
> 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.
Chris Nielsen writes:
> Ahhhh! I presume this would be true for the 'mirror' discussion too...
True. If I were describing in Klingon an event which involved a mirror, I
would probably just use the English word. However, since a "specular
reflector which allows one to see oneself" is probably a universal concept
and not specific to a particular culture, I would expect to be able to
describe a mirror succinctly in any language. It's still possible that the
Klingon word for "mirror" is based on an idiom that we don't use; {bIqHey}
or {'otlh beghqoq}.
-- ghunchu'wI'