tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 03 09:28:07 1995
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: Strange New World Book
- From: Wouter Slegers <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Strange New World Book
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 18:27:58 +0100 (MET)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Mar 1, 95 06:58:49 pm
< >< Rpger writes:
< >< > I might add this spin to it... if you're going to learn a language, it
< >< > might as well be done in the context of a project which will hold your
< >< > interest. For many, the Bible is such a book.
< ><
< >< This way, a Finn could open the Klingon bible, and a Suomi bible
< >< side-by-side and begin learning Klingon without needing to know English....
< ><
< >I beg to differ!
< >The Klingon bible is translated from AN english version (a rather well
< >known I believe), which is a translation of the original Greek (I
< >hope).
<
< Um, not entirely. I, for one, translate the Bible from its original Hebrew
< (not Greek; I'm doing the Hebrew Bible). Nick Nicholas works from the
< Greek. Jonathan van Hoose (sp?) is also a Greek-speaker, and Kevin Wilson
< has some familiarity in all the original languages of the Bible. True, we
< can't hope to find many people who can manage ancient tongues *and*
< Klingon, so I understand Kevin is recommending that a particular well-known
< English version be used (probably a Finnish one or whatever could be used
< by a Finnish translator... if we had any)... but the editors (listed above)
< all get final looks, and we can read the original.
<
Mmmm your saying you are still translating the bible from different
languages (Hebrew and Greek). And even if you weren't, you going to
lose a lot of grammer-constructions when translating from one language
to another, so the idea of learning Klingon in your own language via
the bible isn't feasable anyhow...
BTW: A comliment to the work you guys are doing... keep it up!
Qapla'
Wouter
----8<----- CUT HERE -----8<---------8<------- FOR RECEIPT -----8<-----
This proves that I have NOT received ANY message from Wouter Slegers.
Wouter Slegers, 3rd year CS, [email protected]||[email protected].
Disclaimer: If the above sounds plausible, reread it several times!
GCS 2.0: d-(++) H s+: !g au- a- w+ v+>+++ C++++++>++ UI+>+++ UL+>++++
L+>++ 3 E--- N++ K W----- M- !V> po- Y+ t++(+++) 5+ jx R G? tv
g+++ D+++ B---- e+>++ u- h>++ f+ r- n---(----) Y?